| Example | Term |
|---|---|
| gideceğini | Surface |
| gideceğini+Noun | Surface+SurfacePos |
| gidecek | Body |
| gidecek+Noun | Body+BodyPos |
| gideceğ | BodySurface |
| gitmek | Lemma |
| gitmek+Verb | Lemma+LemmaPos=Lexeme |
| git | Root |
| gid | RootSurface |
| (y)AcAk | SuffixForm |
| ecek | SuffixFormBody |
| eceğ | SuffixFormSurface |
| Term | Value | Value | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordSurface | kitapçılığı | ||
| Stems | kitap | kitapçı | kitapçılık |
| StemSurfaces | kitap | kitapçı | kitapçılığ |
| Body | kitapçılık | ||
| BodySurface | kitapçılığ |
- Surface: Full word including the root and suffixes
- Root : The root of a word. Root atomic part.
- Derivation : Deriving a new word from another word.
- Inflection : Conjugating a word with a person agreement / possession / tense etc.
- Suffix form : Form of a suffix. For example, suffix 'Progressive' has 2 suffix forms; '-iyor' and '-makta'
- Body : Root + derivations. Doesn't include the inflections
- POS (part of speech) : Verb, Noun, Adjective etc.
- Inflectional suffix : A suffix that doesn't change body nor the POS of a surface
- Derivational suffix : A suffix that changes the body and might change the POS of a surface
- Morpheme : Elements of a surface; root and suffixes
- Lemma : The root text that can be found in a dictionary
- Lexeme : Lemma + POS of the lemma
- Morphology : How a surface is constructed and how can it be extracted to morphemes
- Morphotactics : Rules when can a suffix can be applied. For example "Progressive suffix can only be applied to a Verb, and it can't be applied to a surface which has Progressive suffix already"
- Ortographics : Rules of phonetics. For example rules for voicing (kitap+a --> kitaba), devoicing (kitap+cı --> kitapçı), vowel drop (omuz+u --> omzu), etc.