Identification of Morphs

The second stage of morphemic analysis is identification of morphs. The main criteria here are semantic and phonetic similarity. Morphs should have the same denotational meaning, but their phonemic shape can vary.

e.g. please, pleasing pleasure, pleasant

Phonetically conditioned positional morpheme variants are called allomorphs. They occur in a specific environment, being identical in meaning or function and characterized by complementary distribution,

e.g. the prefix in- (in transitive) can be represented by such allomorphs:

il- il literate

im- im possible

ir- ir regular

Classification of Morphemes

The final stage of the procedure of the morphemic analysis is classification of morphemes.

Morphemes can be classified from different points of view (POV).