Tuesday 18 August 2015

morphology - Morpheme help: How many morphemes does the word "dost" (Shakespeare) have?

Thy is a reduced form of thine, which is the genitive of thou. It could therefore be argued that thine, at least, consists of two morphemes, thou and its inflectional ending. Whether such an analysis extends to thy would no doubt serve to keep grammarians amused on many a long winter evening.



And, if, of, a, but and in are all morphemes.

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