empty morph

noun

A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning.

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Meanings

nounempty morph (plural empty morphs)

plural empty morphs

  1. human sciencesA morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning.

    An empty morph is an interfix if it fulfills all of the following three conditions (Dressier, 1985f).

    2004, Francis Katamba, Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, →ISBN, page 187
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APA

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