#morpheme minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
supertype: #language_unit__linguistic_unit one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
subtype: #allomorph a variant phonological representation of a morpheme: "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme"
subtype: #morphophoneme (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
subtype: #free_morpheme__free_form a morpheme that can occur alone
subtype: #bound_morpheme__boundmorpheme__bound_form__boundform a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
subtype: #combining_form__combiningform a bound form used only in compounds; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'"
subtype: #affix a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
subtype: #prefix an affix that added in front of the word
subtype: #alpha_privative__alphaprivative the negative prefix a- or un-
subtype: #suffix__ending an affix that is added at the end of the word
subtype: #inflectional_suffix an inflection that is added at the end of a root word
subtype: #infix an affix that is inserted inside the word
subtype: #classifier.word a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class in which an item belongs
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