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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression, especially within a word. 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. The field of linguistic study dedicated to morphemes is…

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Morpheme

Nodes62
Edges61
Triples70
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032258
Components1

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Morpheme

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see also · 14
Morpheme → Alternate, Alternation, Branch, EnglishMorphological, Folk-Literature, Greek, Index, Linguistic, Part, Process, Six, Stith Thompson, Study, Word
related to Morphological analysis · 9
Morpheme → Chinese, In, Japanese, Morphological, She, The, They, Those, You
related to Free and bound morphemes · 7
Morpheme → Bound, English, Every, Examples, For, Free, Most
related to Content vs. function · 6
Morpheme → Both, Content, Examples, For, Here, On
related to External links · 6
Morpheme → Archived, Glossary, Lecture, Mark LiebermanPronunciation, Morphology, Wayback Machine
related to Allomorphs · 5
Morpheme → Allomorphs, An, English, For, That
related to Other features · 5
Morpheme → Any, For, Moreover, Roots, Such
related to Zero-morpheme · 4
Morpheme → For, Generally, The, They
is a · 3
Morpheme → affix like -er that in English transforms a verb into an agent noun, smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression, type of morpheme that carries semantic meaning
related to Changing definitions · 3
Morpheme → Direct, In, LFG

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morphemes root bound word meaning words english free inflectional example form noun function derivational composed -s called linguistic also morphological

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Morphemeis asmallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression0.90text
Morphemeis atype of morpheme that carries semantic meaning0.90text
Morphemeis aaffix like -er that in English transforms a verb into an agent noun0.90text
bound rootsinstance ofas well as bound morphemes0.80text
derivational affixes.Function morphemes may be free morphemes that are prepositionsinstance ofas well as bound morphemes0.80text
pronounsinstance ofas well as bound morphemes0.80text
determinersinstance ofas well as bound morphemes0.80text
auxiliary verbs or conjunctionsinstance ofas well as bound morphemes0.80text
or bound morphemes that are inflectional affixesinstance ofas well as bound morphemes0.80text
Morphemerelated to AllomorphsAllomorphs0.60section
Morphemerelated to AllomorphsFor0.60section
Morphemerelated to AllomorphsEnglish0.60section

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