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FieldWorks Language Explorer is software for building lexical resources and analyzing language data. It combines a lexical database with text analysis, allowing forms in a text corpus to be connected to entries and proposed analyses into morphemes. Its official documentation describes both manual and automatic word parsing and the production of dictionary and grammatical resources.^[ref]

For an illustrative workflow, a recorded occurrence of walked can be associated with a WALK lexeme, a segmentation into walk and -ed, and a past grammatical tense analysis. An interlinear gloss can display these aligned layers while preserving the original form. A later occurrence supplies a chance to test the analysis rather than merely reproduce a translation. Alternative segmentations and meanings must still be evaluated from evidence. FieldWorks Language Explorer organizes the data and proposed relationships; using the software does not itself establish that an analysis of linguistic morphology is correct.

SIL International is a language-focused organization whose name appears as the publisher of linguistic reference materials and software documentation. Its glossary distinguishes concepts such as grammatical tense, which locates a situation relative to a reference time, and grammatical aspect, which describes its temporal presentation.^[ref][ref]

Its language-technology work includes FieldWorks Language Explorer, software for organizing lexical entries, analyzing texts and describing grammar. An investigator can connect an observed word form with an analysis into morphemes, then compare that analysis across further recorded examples. Such tools make a proposed linguistic morphology inspectable; the stored analysis still needs evidence from language use.^[ref]