Morphotactics represent the ordering restrictions in place on the ordering of morphemes. Etymologically, it can be translated as "the set of rules that define how morphemes (morpho) can touch (tactics) each other".
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Example of a morphotactic rules
(in English)
- Plural ^s follows Noun
- ^z cannot follow Noun [meaningless - see talk page]
Common morphotactic model
Finite-state machine and Graph are the two models which are often used as a set of rules for morphotactics.
References
Morphotactics Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA