empty morph

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Noun

empty morph (plural empty morphs)

  1. (linguistic morphology) A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning.
    Coordinate term: null morpheme
    • 2004, Francis Katamba, Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics‎[1], →ISBN, page 187:
      An empty morph is an interfix if it fulfills all of the following three conditions (Dressier, 1985f).

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