Words similar to morphemes
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.
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.
Like the puns above, most word forms with newly created morphemes are incidental and almost always dismissible, but not functionless.
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.
It is the first citation in the OED Supplement , Volume 4 (1986), which defines the word as a “TV program lasting several hours, especially to solicit contributions,” coined by analogy from marathon . What had apparently happened was that a false analysis had divided the Olympic event into two specious morphemes, as if mar(a) meant `running' and -(a)thon meant `long' as a suffix.