The morph as a minimal linguistic form

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4580793
AutoresMartin Haspelmath (0000-0003-2100-8493, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen30
Número2
Páginas117-134
Fecha de publicación2020-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMorphology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1871-5621 • E-ISSN: 1871-5656
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11525-020-09355-5
PMID32647553
OpenAlexW3021574885
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas43

This paper makes a terminological proposal: that the old termmorphcan be used for a minimal linguistic form. Many linguists (not only morphologists) need such a term, because we often refer to minimal linguistic forms, but the various terms used by linguists in roughly this meaning are either unclear or do not refer to forms. The term "morpheme" has three rather different meanings, and other terms such as "vocabulary item" are too abstract. The term "morph" can be used as the basis for defining other widely used terms such as "root", "prefix", and "suffix", which are currently often defined as kinds of "morphemes". It can also serve as the basis for a clearer definition of suppletion (involving suppletive morph sets) and morph variants, thus avoiding the confusions surrounding the term "allomorph(y

Affix · Allomorph · Basis (linear algebra · Comparative linguistics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Morpheme · Prefix · Root (linguistics · Sociology · Suffix · Term (time · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation