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morpheme

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See also:Morphemeandmorphème

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Etymology

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FromFrenchmorphème. Ultimately fromAncient Greekμορφή(morphḗ,shape, form). Bysurface analysis,morph +‎-eme.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Examples
  • pigs consists of two morphemes:pig (a particular animal) ands (indication of the plural).
  • werewolves consists of three morphemes:were(man),wolf (a particular animal),es (plural).
  • feet consists of two morphemes:foot (a body part) andi-mutation (plural).

morpheme (pluralmorphemes)

  1. (linguisticmorphology) Thesmallestlinguistic unit within aword that cancarry ameaning. It may be aletter, asyllable, or otherwise.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:morpheme
    Coordinate terms:chereme,chroneme,grapheme,lexeme,listeme,phoneme,sememe,taxeme,toneme
    • 1970, Thomas Pyles, John Algeo,English: An Introduction to Language, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,page135:
      Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is ofmorphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.
    • 1993, Peter Matthews, “Central Concepts of Syntax”, in Joachim Jacobs, Arnim von Stechow, Wolfgang Sternefeld, Theo Vennemann, editors,Syntax, Walter de Gruyter,→ISBN,page95:
      There is therefore a natural tendency in both American and European structural linguistics to insist that the word should be syntactically decomposed. For writers such as Hockett (1958), or for that matter the early Chomsky (1957), the indivisible unit of grammar was themorpheme, and the relationship ofmorpheme tomorpheme within the word[] was to be handled no differently from that of word to word in any larger structure.

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Holonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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smallest linguistic unit

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