Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe property of being a morpheme.
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Morphological features can only be posited for a substrate language if there is sufficient positive evidence, i.e. an alternation between non-inherited endings. "Morpheme-hood" should only be posited based on language-internal evidence, as positing suffix alternation on the basis of forms in different languages renders both the comparison of the forms and the identification of the suffix circular.
2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 41
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morphemehood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morphemehood
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