Example sentences for: morphemes

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

  • Many of these new morphemes have not been gagged at all, since no part of them meant anything in thefirst place.

  • Here is a copy of Martyn Ecott's little story, with the Franglais expressions left in italics but with the English morphemes originally borrowed from French underlined in the mainly English text.

  • For about the last century, American English has been openly kidnapping bits of words and putting them to work as new bound morphemes without the least regard for their original meanings--or, rather, lack of meanings.

  • In this calculatedly selective text I count only a few more Franglais words or morphemes, forty-four, than English morphemes originally, in most cases centuries ago, borrowed from French, forty by my count.

  • I think it patently silly to waste time trying to decide whether the Lexicon (note the capital L) of English is conceived of as a list of words or as a list of morphemes (meaningful elements that may stand alone or combine to form words) with a set of rules governing how the elements operate.


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