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English
Noun
empty morph (plural empty morphs)
- (linguistic morphology) A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning, as contrasted with a zero morph, which has a meaning but no phonetic realization.
2004, Francis Katamba, Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, →ISBN, page 187:An empty morph is an interfix if it fulfills all of the following three conditions (Dressier, 1985f).
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Further reading
- “empty morph”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “empty morph”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- 323 Definitions by Richard C. DeArmond, sfu.ca
- LINGUIST List 9.755 Thu May 21 1998 Sum: The Term "Morph", linguistlist.org
- Morphology Lectures: EDUC 537 by Harold F. Schiffman, ccat.sas.upenn.edu
- Lack of morpheme segmentability, courses.washington.edu
- Computational methods for morphological theory by Rob Malouf, llf.cnrs.fr