Morpheme

Word MORPHEME
Character 8
Hyphenation mor pheme
Pronunciations /ˈmɔː(ɹ)fiːm/

Definitions and meanings of "Morpheme"

What do we mean by morpheme?

A meaningful linguistic unit that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts. The word man and the suffix -ed (as in walked) are morphemes. noun

The smallest unit of meaning of a language, which cannot be divided into smaller parts carrying meaning; it is usually smaller than a single wordform, such as the -ed morpheme of verbs in the past tense or the -s morpheme of nouns in the plural form. noun

The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable". noun

Minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units noun

The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning.

To morph 2 or more fugly things to make something even fuglier Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Morpheme

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The word "morpheme" in example sentences

I think that the possessive morpheme is technically a clitic. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in the language. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Logograms are like Chinese characters: each represents a word or morpheme a morpheme is the smallest part of the word that has a meaning of its own. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

A Basic Model of Grammar Most theories of grammar accept that grammatical units are ordered hierarchically according to their size (a rank scale) o sentence (or clause complex) clause …. phrase (or group) … word … morpheme The morpheme is the smallest unit in grammar simply because it has no structure of its own. ❋ Geniusroi (2010)

A unit which is different PHONOLOGICALLY and SEMANTICALLY is not considered to be a morpheme as a morpheme is a distinct meaningful unit in its own. ❋ Nishantl (2009)

It makes direct use of the notion of morpheme in the definition of agglutinative and fusional languages. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language; a bound morpheme is one that appears only in combination with another morpheme, such as the suffixes and prefixes of English. ❋ Unknown (1989)

I'm using in its linguistics context where a "morpheme" is a unit of meaning, so: "poly" - many, "morphic" †"meanings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just as the ability of the word man to be gender-neutral varies from context to context, so too does the neutrality of the morpheme man vary from word to word. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And I can understand not wanting to change every word containing the morpheme man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Figure 7.3 shows a morpheme web for the root struct and Figure 7.4 illustrates an affix matrix for the root struct. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He wept as he mouthed so many polysyllabic diamonds, each morpheme packed with mean men, dirty children and rust. ❋ Christopher Allen (2011)

You probably feel at times like a chord of a conic section that passes through a focus and is parallel to the directrix, but know for certain that the phonemic differences between allormorphs of the same morpheme is supported by the idea that the quantitative measurement of many characters to the determination of taxa and to the construction of diagrams indicating systematic changes can make or break us. ❋ Jeffrey S. Callico (2011)

I seems as though a moment can be likened to a morpheme in language. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Latinate approach offers instant recognition at a root morpheme level but signals "technical term" at the same time. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

the girl wanted [curly hair] with [bright] [yellow] higlights, so she morphem ❋ COXOXOOXI (2022)

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