Exponent (linguistics)

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An exponent is a phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property. In non-technical language, it is the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound. There are several kinds of exponents:

• Identity
• Affixation
• Reduplication
• Internal modification
• Subtraction