empty morph

English

Noun

empty morph (plural empty morphs)

(linguistic morphology) A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning, as contrasted with a zero morph, which has a meaning but no phonetic realization.
- 2004, Francis Katamba, Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics‎, →ISBN, page 187:
  An empty morph is an interfix if it fulfills all of the following three conditions (Dressier, 1985f).

See also

empty morpheme

Further reading

“empty morph”, in Collins English Dictionary.
“empty morph”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
323 Definitions by Richard C. DeArmond, sfu.ca
LINGUIST List 9.755 Thu May 21 1998 Sum: The Term "Morph", linguistlist.org
Morphology Lectures: EDUC 537 by Harold F. Schiffman, ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Lack of morpheme segmentability, courses.washington.edu
Computational methods for morphological theory by Rob Malouf, llf.cnrs.fr

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