The notions of morph, morpheme, allomorph

The morpheme is

• is the phonetic realization which studies the unit of form, sounds and phonetic symbols

• A variant form of sounds and phonetic symbols

• The smallest meaningful constituent

How many main types does distribution have?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

The aim of distributional analysis

• Fix the units of language in relation to their textual environments

• Fix the units of language in relation to their natural environments

• Study the units of language in relation to their natural environments

• Study the units of language in relation to their textual environments

Distributional analysis of morphemes

• Phonetic

• Morphemic

• Grammatical

• Functional

Zero morpheme

• Has no morphemic form

• Has no lexical form

• Has no phonetic form

• Has no form