| Lemma | meaning of a morpheme |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | descriptive linguistics (inglese) environment (inglese) morpheme (inglese) occurrence (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | It is possible to seek a single factor of meaning common to all the occurrences of a morpheme, so that the range of meaning can be stated in terms of a meaning element which always occurs with the morpheme, plus added variations in various environments. However, this will not necessarily yield a more convenient or compact set of statements in every case. It may be more useful for descriptive linguistics to treat the range of meaning of a morpheme as consisting of several environmentally-restreicted meanings, the environmental ranges to which each meaning is restricted being selected in the manner of chapter 15 [morpheme classes]. |