morphemicsn.
/mɔːˈfiːmɪks/, U.S. /mɔrˈfimɪks/ Linguistics.
The study, description, or analysis of morphemes and the morphemic structure of words.
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1947 Language 23 321 Morphemics and tactics are both necessarily involved in grammar.
1951 G. L. Trager & H. L. Smith Outl. Eng. Struct. ii. 53 The analysis we are now going to do, the morphemics of the language, deals with the recurring patterned partials in utterances.
1961 D. 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.
1966 Amer. Speech 41 116 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 {bɛt} for the morpheme {bɛd}.
1984 Ling. Stud. Indonesian 18 1 The focus of the present paper will, then, look fairly narrow: sheer morphemics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1947- to be buddybuddies with
- to be buds with
- to be built for comfort, not for speed
- to be built like
- to be bumping along the bottom
- to be buried in woollen
- to be burnt out
- to be bursting
- to be busting
- to be busy enough
- to be busy to do
- to be busy with
- to be butt-fucked
- to be buttfucked
- to be by the ears
- to be by the lugs
- to be by way of
- to be by with it
- to be called to one's reward
- to be called to the bar
- to be called within the bar
- to be capped to
- to be carried with
- to be cast in a mould
- to be cast in a particular mould