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morphemics, n. pl. Linguistics.|mɔːˈfiːmɪks|
[f. morpheme: see -ic 2.]
The study and description of language in terms of morphemes.
1947Language XXIII. 321 Morphemics and tactics are both necessarily involved in grammar. 1951Trager & Smith Outl. Eng. Structure ii. 53 The analysis we are now going to do, the morphemics of the language, deals with the recurring patterned partials in utterances. 1960T. B. W. Reid Historical Philol. & Ling. Sci. 9 Others maintain that..phonemics and morphemics alone constitute linguistics, whereas phonetics and semantics are independent disciplines which do not interest them. 1961D. L. Bolinger Generality, Gradience & All-or-None iii. 35 There is obligatory lengthening in too many places for us to insist that English morphemics be studied in total disregard of it. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia iv. 14 The characters have to cope not only with the phonetic properties of the sound, but also with the problem of meaning. In other words, both phonemics and morphemics must be satisfied. 1966Amer. Speech XLI. 116 If the first and last words in Betty is in her beddy are phonetically identical, then for the morphemics, one would have to..set up an allomorph {ob}bɛt{cb} for the morpheme {ob}bɛd{cb}.
So morˈphemicist, one who studies morphemics.
1949Kirby & Woolf Philologica: Malone Anniv. Stud. 312 In analyzing Joyce's work, the morphemicist would be obliged to construct diagrams in layers, piled one on top of the other. |