morphemes

Synonyms

rune ABCs alphabet hieroglyph ideograph phoneme fundamentals pictograph elements syllabary

Examples

Aikhenvald 2004, p. 377. The chart below depicts an example of these morphemes from the Wanka Quechua language: Aikhenvald 2004, p. 42. The parentheses around the vowels indicate that the vowel can be dropped in when following an open vowel. Source: Internet

Affixations, the linguistic process speakers use form different words by adding morphemes (affixes) at the beginning (prefixation), the middle (infixation) or the end (suffixation) of words. Source: Internet

Aikhenvald 2004, p. 3. In the Quechua languages, evidentiality is a three-term system: there are three evidential morphemes that mark varying levels of source information. Source: Internet

Any additional affixes are considered morphemes. Source: Internet

A purely isolating language would be analytic by necessity, lacking inflectional morphemes by definition. Source: Internet

Compounding A compound word is a lexeme composed of several pre-existing morphemes. Source: Internet