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empty morphs

empty morphs is the plural of empty morph.

Meaning of empty morph

Noun

empty morph (plural empty morphs)

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

Questions about empty morphs

What is empty morphs the plural of?
Empty morphs is the plural of empty morph.

Words near empty morphs in the dictionary

  1. empty leaves
  2. empty letter
  3. empty morph
  4. empty morpheme
  5. empty morphemes
  6. empty morphs
  7. empty nest
  8. empty nest syndrome
  9. empty nester
  10. empty nesters
  11. empty nesting

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