Box morpheme

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A box morphem , also called portmanteaumorphem or portemanteaumorphem , is a phonological-morphemic unit in which the properties of several morphemes merge in such a way that this unit can no longer be broken down into morphs . Examples for this are:

  • in German: are (verb stem of sein + 1st / 3rd person plural); these forms can be broken down for the other verbs: go-en , play-en . The examples am and im (preposition an or in + article in the dative singular masculine / neuter dem ) are also often mentioned in the literature .
  • du ( de + le ) and au ( à + le ) in French.

The term Portmanteau-Allomorph is sometimes used instead of Portmanteau -Allomorph .

literature

  • Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.) With the collaboration of Hartmut Lauffer: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 4th, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-45204-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henning Bergenholtz, Joachim Mugdan: Introduction to Morphology. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1979, p. 71f. ISBN 3-17-005095-8
  2. ^ Wilfried Kürschner : Grammatical Compendium. Systematic index of basic grammatical terms. 3., verm. And edit. Francke, Tübingen / Basel 1997, p. 85. ISBN 3-8252-1526-1

Web links

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