Example sentences for: morpheme

How can you use “morpheme” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A second class of bound and gagged morphemes comprises innovations based upon a portion of a common term that is either not a morpheme or an incorrect form of a morpheme used in a new sense.

  • The bound and gagged morpheme is in fact the stepchild of the pun and initially is meant to be recombined only as long as it seems clever to do so.

  • Because the model behind the original innovation must be easily recognizable to provide material for a new morpheme, most models are either placenames or common words for locations and activities.

  • Chinaman is nothing but a calque of zhongguo ren , morpheme for morpheme Chinaman , and Polak is simply Pole in Polish.

  • A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language; a bound morpheme is one that appears only in combination with another morpheme, such as the suffixes and prefixes of English.


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