Morpheme

id: morpheme-173-7643164
title: Morpheme
text: A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression. The field of linguistic study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. In English, morphemes are often but not necessarily words. Morphemes that stand alone are considered roots; other morphemes, called affixes, are found only in combination with other morphemes. For example, the -s in cats indicates the concept of plurality but is always bound to another concept to indicate a specific kind of plurality. This disti
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description: Smallest lexical item in a language
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheme
date created: 2001-09-27T21:16:49Z
date modified: 2024-09-02T10:27:20Z
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