| The meaning of the tense morphemes alone does not completely determine the temporal interpretation of a sentence. |
| Saami languages, being of the Finno-Ugric family, are agglutinative, creating words by linear concatenation of morphemes. |
| Some attrition in morphology, plural and past irregular morphemes, in particular, is also observed. |
| For the most part, native Japanese words and morphemes were associated with single Chinese characters, but not always. |
| Bound morphemes have to be attached to a free morpheme, and so cannot be words in their own right. |
| The hallmark of agglutinative languages is multisyllabic words composed of linear sequences of morphemes. |
