Discontinuous morpheme

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A discontinuous morpheme is a morpheme that has at least one discontinuous allomorph, that is, it consists of at least two units that are not connected in terms of sound or writing. Examples are circumfixes such as ge ... -t in ge Ehr t , ge lach t in German or many roots in Semitic languages such as Arabic s-lm 'peace, surrender' in the words s a l a m , i sl a m , mu sl i m .

Web links

Wiktionary: discontinuous morpheme  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: discontinuous allomorph  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Helmut Richter: Presentation and use of different transcription systems and methods in: Dialektologie. A handbook on German and general dialect research , ed. by Werner Besch, 1st half-volume, Berlin / New York 1982, p. 586