المورفيمات مفهومها، وأقسامها، ومكانها في السلسلة الكلامية، وعلاقتها بمصطلح الكلمة

Abstract

Morphemes are the foundation of modern morphological analysis. They are grammatical units that have no meaning outside their morphological or syntactic function. Most schools of linguistic study agree that the morpheme is the smallest morphological unit that carries meaning or a grammatical function, replacing the word in modern general linguistic studies.

The reason for this shift lies in the ambiguity found in the term "word," which led linguists to exclude it from linguistic analysis and search for a more suitable basic unit for such analysis. They found what they were looking for in what is known as the morphological unit, or the morpheme, considering it the tool through which language is broken down into its smallest units.

As a result, some linguists have entirely removed the word from linguistic analysis, replacing it with the morpheme.