单词 | morpheme |
释义 | morphemeWord family nounmorphmorphallaxismorphememorphemicsmorphogenesismorphogenymorphographermorphographymorphophonememorphophonemicsmorphosismorphotropyadjectivemorphemicmorphogeneticmorphophonemicmorphoticmorphotropicmorphicadverbmorphemically Linguisticsmor·pheme /ˈmɔːfiːm $ ˈmɔːr-/ noun [countableC] technicalSL the smallest unit of meaning in a language. The words ‘so’, ‘the’, and ‘boy’ consist of one morpheme. ‘Boys’ consists of two morphemes, ‘boy’ and ‘s’ 语素,词素 the past tense morpheme 表示过去式的语素 the plural morpheme 表示复数的语素 Examples from the Corpus morpheme• For others, syllable and character represent at most not a word but rather a morpheme, the smallest unit of meaning.• However, similar effects are also observable across morpheme boundaries and to some extent also within the morpheme.• Determining the constituent morphemes is further complicated because there may be more than one possible segmentation for a word.• For example, un-friend-li-ness contains four morphemes, and war only one.• These two kinds of deictic usage contrast with the non-deictic usage of the same words or morphemes.• Spelling changes may occur at the morpheme boundaries resulting in slight changes to the surface string produced by the morpheme combinations. (1800-1900) French morphème, from Greek morphe “form” + English -eme (as in phoneme) |
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