Morphology and words: A memoir

Morphology and words: A memoir. Since the end of the nineteenth century, most academic linguistic theories have described the internal structure of words in terms of the concept of the morpheme, a term first coined and defined by Baudouin de Courtenay (1895/1972, p. 153):. that part of a word which is endowed with psychological autonomy and is for the very same reason not further divisible. ................
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