When we look at the morphology of other languages, we can find other forms and patterns realizing the basic types of morphemes we have identified. The first example below is from English and the second from a language called Aztec (from Central America). In both cases, we attach a derivational morpheme to a stem, then add an inflectional morpheme.

Different patterns occur in other languages. In the following examples, from a range of languages originally described in Gleason (1955), we can try to work out how different forms in the languages are used to realize morphological processes and features.