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  2. Morpheme - Wikipedia

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    A morpheme is any of the smallest meaningful constituents within a linguistic expression and particularly within a word. [1] Many words are themselves standalone morphemes, while other words contain multiple morphemes; in linguistic terminology, this is the distinction, respectively, between free and bound morphemes.

  3. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Bloomfield's "lexical morpheme" hypothesis: morphemes, affixes and roots alike are stored in the lexicon. Morpheme-based morphology comes in two flavours, one Bloomfieldian [17] and one Hockettian. [18] For Bloomfield, the morpheme was the minimal form with meaning, but did not have meaning itself.

  4. List of Greek morphemes used in English - Wikipedia

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    Greek Morphemes, Khoff, Mountainside Middle School English vocabulary elements , Keith M. Denning, Brett Kessler, William R. Leben, William Ronald Leben, Oxford University Press US, 2007, 320pp, p. 127, ISBN 978-0-19-516802-0 at Google Books

  5. Content morpheme - Wikipedia

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    The various functional morphemes surrounding the semantic core are able to modify the use of the root through derivation, but do not alter the lexical denotation of the root as somehow 'pleasing' or 'satisfying'. Most or all major class words include at least one content morpheme; compounds may contain two or more content morphemes.

  6. Root (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A root, or a root morpheme, in the stricter sense, may be thought of as a mono-morphemic stem. The traditional definition allows roots to be either free morphemes or bound morphemes . Root morphemes are the building blocks for affixation and compounds .

  7. Bound and free morphemes - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a 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 morpheme) is one that can stand alone. [1] A bound morpheme is a type of bound form, and a free morpheme is a type of free form. [2]

  8. Measure word - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, measure words are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate an amount of something represented by some noun.Many languages use measure words, and East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean use them very extensively in the form of number classifiers.

  9. Category:English morphemes - Wikipedia

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