zero suffix (English, noun)
expansion: zero suffix (plural zero suffixes)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: A suffix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a suffix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised suffix to the point that it is inaudible).
Forms:
form: zero suffixes
tags: plural