morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful unitsallomorph - a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme" bound form, bound morpheme - a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns classifier - a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class in which an item belongs ending, termination - the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" |