Morfem a znaczenie
Morpheme and meaning

Summary/Abstract: The notion of morpheme was introduced to language analysis in the age of comparative linguistics and has since been an ambiguous unit. It can be obtained from words combined with each other by derivational relation» also in binary synchronic analysis - from groups smaller than word families. Modern linguistics uses the morpheme as an element originating from words of different meaning and comprising all the meanings of particular word forms. Because of its ambiguity it cannot be used in language description» so far no efficient metod has been found to combine the meaning - or meanings, rather - with the morpheme. Therefore, it is necessary to recognize the smallest meaningful unit of a language not as an ambiguous unit but as a unit of uniform meaning. In semantically uniform words we can distinguish between common and differentiating elements bat only in the sense of the form.

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