The necessity of a new redefinition of 'morpheme'

• Authors: Pete I.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The Polish linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929) was the first to use the term morpheme (1881, Kazan). Since then, the term has been redefined over and over again. Nowadays, the morpheme is the smallest meaningful or formal unit in a language, in a word, or in a grammar, or the smallest linguistic sign. The author of this paper gives a new redefinition of morpheme as follows: The morpheme is the smallest asymmetrical formal unit with any kind of meaning or function in word structures. The realisation of morphemes exhibits epidigmatic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships or dimensions.

Keywords

EN

BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY; MORPHEMES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 128
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 187-195
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pete I.

• I. Pete, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06HUAAAA01042406