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Oleo de José Tola
From: Donna S
Date: 2/17/99
Time: 5:23:50 AM
Remote Name: 207.172.200.127
Does anyone know the latest definition of a morpheme? Until recently, it was considered to be the smallest individually meaningul element in the utterances of a language. There was consant debate over this definition since sometimes what we consider to be a morpheme does not necessrily have meaning. I've read About examples such as "per" in permit or even "mit" in permit. Or even "stood." We all know what "stood" means. We also know what "Under" means, so what about "understood" And, my favorite examples: what does "Cran" mean in cranberry - or "rasp" in raspberry? In one of Aranoff's articles, he says that word meaning can be based upon its connection to another linguistic entity. I only remember the "debate" on this issue, however it was quite some time ago that I read about it. I managed to find this info. from notes taken a while back.