英语教学术语选摘(三十六)

摘要：

[morpheme]
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a language.The word meaningful,for example,consists of three morphemes:mean,ing,and ful.None of these can be broken down further to form meaningful grammatical units,and all of them can be used as the building blocks for other words,such as means,speaking,and beautiful.Note that,while mean can stand on its own (it is a free morpheme),ing and ful cannot.They are bound morphemes,and must combine with free morphemes to form complete words.Bound morphemes are mainly affixes.The description of the way morphemes combine is called morphology.
(An Excerpt from An A-Z of ELT-A dictionary of terms and concepts used in English Language Teaching,Scott Thornbury,p.137)

机标关键词：英语教学、教学术语

分类号：J616.2;H319.3;G633.41

在线出版日期：2015-02-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）

页码：40,51