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empty morph

noun

empty morph

noun
1

Human sciences, Linguistic morphology, Linguistics, Morphology, Sciences A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning.

  • An empty morph is an interfix if it fulfills all of the following three conditions (Dressier, 1985f).2004, Francis Katamba, Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, →ISBN, page 187:
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