- A
morpheme is any of the
smallest meaningful constituents within a
linguistic expression and
particularly within a word. Many
words are
themselves standalone...
- the
original on 2006-09-25. Hockett,
Charles F. (1947). "Problems of
morphemic analysis". Language. 23 (4): 321–343. doi:10.2307/410295. JSTOR 410295...
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bound morpheme is a
morpheme (the
elementary unit of morphosyntax) that can
appear only as part of a
larger expression,
while a free
morpheme (or unbound...
- root). A word-final
segment that is
somewhere between a free
morpheme and a
bound morpheme is
known as a
suffixoid or a semi-suffix (e.g.,
English -like...
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syllable in length. In some
special cases,
characters may
denote non-
morphemic syllables as well; due to this,
written Chinese is
often characterized...
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contains both one or more free
morphemes (a unit of
meaning which can
stand by
itself as a word), and one or more
bound morphemes (a unit of
meaning which cannot...
- root
morpheme, in the
stricter sense, a mono-
morphemic stem. The
traditional definition allows roots to be
either free
morphemes or
bound morphemes. Root...
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Morphemization is a term
describing the
process of
creating a new
morpheme using existing linguistic material.
Silver used the term for
fused words, or...
- In linguistics, an
affix is a
morpheme that is
attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The main two
categories are
derivational and inflectional...
- In morphology, a null
morpheme or zero
morpheme is a
morpheme that has no
phonetic form. In
simpler terms, a null
morpheme is an "invisible" affix. It...
