monomorphemic
adjective
languagespecializeduk/ˌmɒn.əʊ.mɔːˈfiː.mɪk/us/ˌmɑː.noʊ.mɔːrˈfiː.mɪk/having onemorpheme(= thesmallestunitoflanguagethat hasitsownmeaning, either a word or apartof a word):
The words weremarkedfor whether they were monomorphemic (eg "sock") or bimorphemic (eg "boys").
Compare
bimorphemic
- InChinese, there are monomorphemic words thatcontaintwocharacters.
- Thestudywasinterestedin children'sproductionof monomorphemic words.
- Thepredictionis that there will be abigdifferencebetweenratesofdeletioninregularpasttenseversusmonomorphemicforms.
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ville
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- analytic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ion
- ism
- libfix
- morphological
- morphology
- multisyllabic
- suffix
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable