👉 Perdurant is a term used in the field of linguistics and comparative morphology. It refers to a morphological feature that allows a word or phrase to retain its original meaning or form over time, without necessarily changing its grammatical structure. Perdurants are often associated with words or phrases that have undergone significant changes in their grammatical forms during the course of their use. In linguistics, perdurant is defined as "a feature of a word or phrase that allows it to retain its