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morpheme::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | linguistic unit, language unit |
| Has types | bound morpheme, classifier, ending, free form, free morpheme, allomorph, termination, bound form |
| Derivation | morphemic |
Examples of morphemes
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Most bound morphemes in English are affixes, particularly prefixes and suffixes.
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Non-speakers just can't as readily pick out the morphemes from a spoken sentence.
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Yes, of course, one should differentiate between free and derivational morphemes.
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Analyzability may be further limited by cranberry morphemes and semantic changes.
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According to McArthur, no other set of words and morphemes is so international.
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On second thought, shouldn't one distinguish free and derivational morphemes?
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Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes.
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In morpheme-based morphology, word forms are analyzed as arrangements of morphemes.
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Virtually all polysyllabic morphemes in Mizo can be shown to originate in this way.
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- Minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
- In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest component of word, or other linguistic unit, that has semantic meaning. The term is used as part of the branch of linguistics known as morpheme-based morphology. ...
- The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable"
- (Morphemes) Parts of a word which singly or together convey meaning.
- A spoken word or part of a spoken word that has meaning.
- Linguistically, the smallest collection of sounds or letters in a spoken or written word that has semiotic importance or significance--a unit of meaning that cannot be divided into tinier units of meaning. ...
- The smallest unit of grammatical structure. Thus, a plural noun such as cats comprises two morphemes, namely the stem cat and the plural suffix -s.
- The minimal sign, un decomposable in a given synchronic state E.g.,retropropulseurs contains five morphemes.
- An individual unit of meaning in a word. For example, the word uninterested may be analyzed as consisting of three morphemes: un-, interest, and -ed. (Morphemes are sometimes also considered to contain units which have no basic phonological representation, see reduplication, truncation).
