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Morphological analysis
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and nouns. There are some words, however, which end in er and are both nouns
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and verbs or are verbs only. Some examples are batter, checker, chatter, and
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flicker, which appear in the lexicon.
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Although many compounds have the part of speech of their rightmost morph,
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others do not. Such compounds must be included as lexical entries. A number of
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the compounds included for this reason are adjectives such as bygone, borderline,
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commonplace, and freehand. Others, such as buttonhole, homestead, and
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bottleneck, may be used as either nouns or verbs whereas their rightmost morph
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may be a noun but not a verb.
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