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Word Structure
On morphemes and morphomes: exploring the distinctionThe concept of the morphome (i.e. a morphological unit at odds with syntax and semantics) is notoriously uncomfortable for many formal models of morphology. Many discussions have thus centred on whether morphomes exist and whether individual cases are morphomic or not. When one gets rid of theoretically-driven assumptions, however, there is little evidence for a dichotomic taxonomization of the morphological minimal signs into morphemes and morphomes. Cross-linguistic variation suggests that morphological units can be arranged on a scale from the most simple to the most complex morphosyntactic distributions. The properties of ones vs the others are, however, not substantially different. I argue, therefore, that we should avoid this arbitrary taxonomy and explore instead the diversity of form-meaning mappings objectively by developing adequate and cross-linguistically applicable quantitative measures.
B.A. (Hons) VI Semester Course: Linguistics and the Structure of English Language-II Course Code: BAE 323 Teacher: Namrata Rathore Mahanta (English Section, MMV) B.H.U
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