morphophonemics, n. pl.
(ˌmɔːfəʊfəˈniːmɪks)
[f. prec. + -ics.]
The study and description of the phonemic aspects of the constitution of morphemes.
| 1939 L. Bloomfield in Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague VIII. 105 The present paper describes..the internal sandhi or morphophonemics of the language. 1953 [see morpheme-sequence]. 1957 S. Potter Mod. Linguistics vii. 146 As we proceed from morphophonemics, and morphology proper, to syntax, so we observe a rise in the scale of semantic values. 1965 B. M. H. Strang Metaphors & Models 15 The study of how a language encodes its different meanings is called morphophonemics. 1968 Amer. Speech XLIII. 233 The author includes a description of Jamaican Creole..morphophonemics. 1972 Language XLVIII. 805 This negative is realized from the sentence modality without going through the morphophonemics of pre-verbal location. 1973 Computers & Humanities VII. 218 How does one handle the unbelievably complex morphophonemics in choosing headwords? |