Modelling Morphological Features

This is an excerpt from my master thesis titled: "Semi-supervised morphological reinflection using rectified random variables" Languages use suffixes and prefixes to convey context, stress, intonation, and grammatical meaning (like subject-verb agreement). Such suffixes and prefixes form a more general class of entities which are the meaningful sub-parts of a word; these are called as morphemes. A language's morphology refers to the rules and processes through which morphemes are combined; this allows a word to express its syntactic categories and semantic meaning. For example, in English, a verb can have three tenses: past, present, and future. These are the inflected forms' of the verb.