2.1.3.Matching tasks

The morpheme

denotes the concrete manifestations, or variants of the generalised units dependent on the regular co-location with other elements of language.

The Eme-term

denotes the generalised invariant units of language characterised by a certain functional status.

The Allo-term

enters the lexicon of language as its elementary component and is a unit of information in the communication process.

"Free" morphemes

are identified only as component parts of words..

"Bound" morphemes

can build up words by themselves

"Semi-bound" morphemes

are auxiliary word-morphemes which build an analytical word-form with a stem of another word.

"Overt" morphemes

are identified as a contrastive absence of morpheme expressing a certain function.

"Covert" morphemes

can build up words by themselves.

"Free" morphemes

are genuine, explicit morphemes building up words

hand - ful

bound

tooth -teeth

discontinuous

have…en

replacive

hand - ful

discontinuous

work -ed

additive

have…en

free

"continuous" :: "discontinuous" morphemes

on the basis of grammatical alternation

"additive" :: "replacive" morphemes

on the basis of formal presentation

"overt" :: "covert" morphemes

on the basis of linear characteristic

Morphs

are morphemic units of speech with the same meaning, in which the difference in form is explained by different environments.

Allomorphs

are abstract language units realized in a number of ways characterized by a common meaning.

Free variants of the same morpheme

are morphemic units of speech with the same meaning which they realize in identical environments.

Morphemes

are recurrent distributionally uncharacterised morphemic units of speech.