"empty morph" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: empty morphs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} empty morph (plural empty morphs)
  1. (linguistic morphology) A morph with a surface phonetic realization but no meaning, as contrasted with a zero morph, which has a meaning but no phonetic realization. Categories (topical): Linguistic morphology Related terms: empty morpheme
    Sense id: en-empty_morph-en-noun-tdZWytmK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, linguistic-morphology, linguistics, morphology, sciences

Inflected forms

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