morphemehood

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morphemehood

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From morpheme + -hood.

noun

uncountable The property of being a morpheme. Morphological features can only be posited for a substrate language if there is sufficient positive evidence, i.e. an alternation between non-inherited endings. "Morpheme-hood" should only be posited based on language-internal evidence, as positing suffix alternation on the basis of forms in differe

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@misc{morphemehood_2026,
  title = {morphemehood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/morphemehood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}