Discontinuous Morphemes
Zellig Sabbettai Harris · Language · 1945
This paper attempts to generalize the term MORPHEME SO as to apply not only to sequences of successive phonemes but also to broken sequences. In so doing, it offers a method of expressing one of the possible relations between morphemes as previously understood. The relation in question is that which obtains between two or more morphemes that always occur together (in a given environment). The essence of the method is that any two or more continuous morphemes which always occur together shall be considered to constitute together a single new morpheme. Since this relation between continuous morphemes is a type of grammatical agreement, the method here proposed obviates the necessity of separately treating this type of agreement.