Concept information
Preferred term
586Morpheme
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Scope note
- Α morpheme is the smallest grammatical and meaningful unit of a language. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word, by definition, is freestanding. When it stands by itself, it is considered a root because it has a meaning of its own and when it depends on another morpheme to express an idea, it is an affix because it has a grammatical function. Every word comprises one or more morphemes.The more combinations a morpheme is found in, the more productive it is said to be.
Source
- Bloomfield 1933
- Booij 2007
- Carstairs-McCarthy 1992
- Ράλλη 2005
Contributor
- Katsiadakis Helen (AA)
Creator
- Karasimos Athanasios (AA)
Notation
- 586
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/586
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