Sentence examples for lexical morpheme from inspiring English sources

Chinese is a morphosyllabic language in which each character, the primary unit of writing, represents both a syllable and a lexical morpheme.

My starting point is the widely accepted reconstructed tones of Proto-Bantu lexical morphemes (Meeussen 1969/1980, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions) to determine how far outside of Narrow Bantu proper the tones correspond.

On a radical nativist view, such as that of Fodor (1981), all or almost all of the concepts expressed by the lexical morphemes (the smallest meaningful components) of a language are innate (not learned, only triggered).

Linguists generally look to three areas for language universality and variation in the realm of natural language meaning: (i) lexical morphemes, (ii) functional morphemes and associated compositional principles, and (iii) pragmatics (von Fintel and Matthewson 2008).

Those who propose genuinely modest teleological theories of content do not hold this view, for they claim that some mental representations that correspond to lexical morphemes are sophisticated, in the sense that they are somehow composed out of or acquired through the use of other representations.

The roots of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) are basic parts of words that carry a lexical meaning, so-called morphemes.

More recent theories predict that individual morphemes can have lexical propensities: idiosyncratic, gradient rates at which they participate in a process—e.g., [0.7 Rule X].

In two picture word interference (PWI) experiments we investigated the lexical status of the two primary morphemes: the root and the word pattern (WP), with the effects of morphological, phonological and semantic relatedness between written distractors and picture names.

In contrast, they might be derived by activation of lexical units containing endings corresponding to morphemes.

In Thai, there is neither inflection nor derivative; hence, another type of sub-lexical unit should be used instead of morpheme.

This study used visual lexical decision experiments with correlational designs to compare the influences of base morpheme frequency and family size on response times to derived words in English and to test for interactions of these variables with suffix productivity.