empty morph

English

Noun

empty morph (plural empty morphs)

1. (linguistic morphology) A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning, as contrasted with a zero morph, which has a meaning but no phonetic realization.
   • 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).

See also

• empty morpheme

Further reading

• “empty morph”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “empty morph”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• 323 Definitions by Richard C. DeArmond, sfu.ca
• LINGUIST List 9.755 Thu May 21 1998 Sum: The Term "Morph", linguistlist.org
• Morphology Lectures: EDUC 537 by Harold F. Schiffman, ccat.sas.upenn.edu
• Lack of morpheme segmentability, courses.washington.edu
• Computational methods for morphological theory by Rob Malouf, llf.cnrs.fr