morphemehood

English

Etymology

From morpheme +‎ -hood.

Noun

morphemehood (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The property of being a morpheme.
    • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 41:
      Morphological features can only be posited for a substrate language if there is sufficient positive evidence, i.e. an alternation between non-inherited endings. "Morpheme-hood" should only be posited based on language-internal evidence, as positing suffix alternation on the basis of forms in different languages renders both the comparison of the forms and the identification of the suffix circular.
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