| Lemma | morpheme |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
| Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | functor (inglese) segmental morpheme (inglese) suprasegmental morpheme (inglese) utterance (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] a morpheme in a given language is defined only relative to the whole morpheme stock of the language: a morpheme is something ‘different’ from all the other morphemes of the language. [...] a morpheme not only carries essentially the same meaning wherever it occurs, but also appears everywhere in exactly the same phonemic shape. [...] morphemes which are identical in phonemic shape, yet distinct because of difference in meaning. [...]. This leads to a consideration of the converse: morphemes which [...] are distinct because of differing phonemic shape, but which have identical meaning. […] it is clear that the morphemes of a language do not occur freely in all conceivable arrangements, but only in some. ‘Morphemes are the smallest individually meaningful elements in the utterances of a language’. |