But in the following definition even s is considered a meaningful unit. What do you say about it? I say the same as GG did. The s is considered meaningful at the end of a noun. Its meaning is "more than one". Another very short morpheme is n .

CalifJim wrote: what would be a meaningless unit then? In English, k is a meaningless unit of language. lp is a meaningless unit of language. vop is a meaningless unit of language. An English speaker would not be able to assign any meaning

Jackson6612 wrote: I was wondering that what would be a meaningless unit then? One can divide a word into any parts he wants, meaningful or meaningless. And when the part (unit) is meaningless, you cannot call it a morpheme.

Noori wrote: Meaningful. To paraphrase, morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a language. I was wondering that what would be a meaningless unit then?

Meaningful. To paraphrase, morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a language.

morpheme the smallest unit of meaning in a language . The words 'so', 'the' and 'boy' consist of one morpheme. 'Boys' consists of two morphemes, 'boy' and 's'. What does meaning mean in the context of the above definition?

Grodan Boll wrote: how can one see if a morpheme is native or classical? A good dictionary.

Studies of languages have shown that any given language will compensate for complexity in one area with simplicity in another and that if you compare any two languages that they have roughly the same number of complex and simple areas. Consider

how can one see if a morpheme is native or classical? do they have any specific characteristics?

Could someone please help me to pick out 10 morphemes that are either native (germanic) or classical (latin)? I apprecaite your help. When people hear a foreign or unfamiliar word for the first time, they try to make sense of it by relating it to