In this article, the German term is not translated.

The main weakness of such an approach is that in claiming precategoriality for all Kernmorphe we are left with the question of why only a small number of the potential exponents of each Kernmorphem actually makes it to the surface. Bergenholtz and
Mugdan (1979) argue for semantic restrictions, although they do not elaborate on the details. Furthermore, if all Kernmorphe are precategorial, then it is hard to explain the existence of a substantial body of overt derivational morphology serving precisely the purpose of effecting change of word class.

http://www.linguistik.uni-kiel.de/haig/WoClass.pdf


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Base morpheme: Another classification of morphemes puts them into two classes: bases and affixes. A base morpheme is the part of a word that has the principal meaning. – An Introductory English Grammar – Norman C. Stageberg

Ein Morphem ist
„Die kleinste bedeutungstragende Einheit bzw die kleinsten lexikalisch definierten
Einheiten, aus denen ein Wort zusammengesetzt ist“
Beispiele:
- Kernmorphem (Berg, seh, gross)
- Partikelmorphem (bei, auf, sehr)
- Derivationsmorphem (-heit, -tum, ur-, un-)
- Flexionsmorphem (e, -test, -ste)

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