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Difficulties in Morphemic Analysis

1.The first difficulty is that you have your own individual stock of morphemes.Another problem results from the fact that phors die as language changes.3.

Difficulties in Morphemic Analysis

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   The first difficulty is that you have your own individual stock of morphemes. For example, Tom may think of automobile as one morpheme meaning “car",whereas Dick may know the morphemes auto (self) and mobile (moving), and recognize them in other words like autograph and mobilize

   
   


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   The second difficulty is that persons may know a given morpheme but differ in the degree to which they are aware of its presence in various words. For example, the agentive suffix (spelled –er, -or, -ar)meaning “one who, that which”, and recognize it in words like singer and actor but what about in professor and sweater .

   
   


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   Another problem results from the fact that phors die as language changes. For example, the morpheme –prehend– in apprehend used to mean “to arrest or seize”, but in comprehendthe phor seems to be dead, and the meaning of the word today is merely ‘understand’.

   
   


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   Additive meaning is a problem in itself. For example: the morphemepose(place) in ‘pose a question’ andinterpose (place between), the meaning is clear but not valid in suppose, repose.