morphemicadj.

1930 J. R. Firth Speech vi. 56 Dutchmen, Danes, Swedes, and Englishmen share many similar morphemic and phonæsthetic habits.

1935 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. (1936) i. 15 One may..devise a morphemic alphabet to label all the different morphemes (e.g. prefixes, roots, suffixes, and endings) of a language.

1957 S. Potter Mod. Ling. i. 26 Plural forms of [some] substantives..which happen to end in a dental (nuts, lords..). Here the inflexion -s or -z is felt by the speaker to be morphemic.

1971 Archivum Linguisticum 2 49 The ‘ambiguity’ of morphemic -s equally characterizes -ing, to name only one further flection.

1991 Amer. Speech 46 201 Or do we say that if there is such a thing as inherent meaning, it is located at the morphemic level, with the combinations of morphemes (into lexical units) providing the primary contexts for establishment of concrete meaning?

1947 Language 23 322 We must have..a set of principles on the basis of which we identify, or refuse to identify, different stretches of speech as morphemically the same.

1982 Papers Dict. Soc. N. Amer. 1979 72 Dictionaries of morphemically arranged lexemes..are compiled according to synchronic or diachronic criteria.