For the most part, native Japanese words and morphemes were associated with single Chinese characters, but not always. |
In this approach, the specimen sentence has 13 monemes divided into 8 morphemes and 5 lexemes. |
Bound morphemes have to be attached to a free morpheme, and so cannot be words in their own right. |
Cognitive Grammar takes the very strong position that all words and morphemes in a language are symbolic. |
These include the order in which second language morphemes are acquired, learners' errors, and the stages of inter-language development. |
In English, there are some derivational morphemes, such as ity, which dramatically affect the phonological shape of the stem. |