bimorphemic, a.
(baɪmɔːˈfiːmɪk)
[f. bi-2 + morphemic a.]
Consisting of or pertaining to two morphemes.
| 1942 Amer. Speech XVII. 168 In 168 oscillograph records of such homophonic pairs [as tide, tied; rise, rye's]..the average duration of the vowel in the bimorphemic words is about ·030 sec. greater than that of the vowel in the monomorphemic words. 1947 Language XXIII. 339 Some may..prefer to reinterpret portmanteaus as bimorphic as well as bimorphemic, even though to do so one must extend the definition of ‘morph’ to cover elements of other than overt phonemic content. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics v. 205 The bimorphemic structure of all English noun plurals. |