Lemma | morpheme |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Nida (2004) |
Titolo | THE IDENTIFICATION OF MORPHEMES |
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Citazioni | A single morpheme may be tactically equivalent to two or more morphemic categories. [...] Morphemes may be classified as consisting of (1) segmental phonemes, (2) suprasegmental phonemes, and (3) both kinds together. An overt formal difference among related forms (forms containing recurrent partials or occurring in complementary distribution) constitutes a morpheme, if in any of these forms this difference, together with a zero tactical difference, is the only significant feature for establishing a minimal unit of phonetic-semantic distinctiveness. Forms which possess a common semantic distinctiveness and an identical form in all their occurrences constitute a single morpheme. [...] Forms which possess a common semantic distinctiveness but which differ in phonemic form (i.e. constituency or shape) constitute a single morpheme provided that the distribution of formal differences can be phonologically defined. [...] Forms which possess a common semantic distinctiveness, but which differ in their phonemic form in such a way that the distribution of the forms cannot be phonologically defined, constitute a single morpheme if the forms are in complementary distribution [...]. Homophonous forms which are semantically related and which occurr in correspondingly different distributional environments constitute a single morpheme with multiple distribution-class memberships. The analysis of morphemes proposed here takes as a basic definition Bloomfield's statements: "a linguistic form which bears no partial phonetic-semantic resemblance to any other form, is a..."morpheme". |