Item and arrangement [...] 2.1. A linguistic form is either SIMPLE or COMPOSITE. 2.2. A simple form is a MORPHEME [...]. The TACTICAL PATTERN of a language is completely covered by a set of statements of the following form (or by any set of statements which can be transformed mechanically into this form): (1) A list of the constructions. (2) Under each construction as heading, (2.1) Enumeration of the positions in that construction, (2.2) Specification of any markers for that construction. (2.3) For each position, (2.31) A list of the morphemes which occur there, and (2.32) A list of the constructions, composite forms belonging to which occur there.
- Hockett (2004b), a pag.114