"empty morpheme" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: empty morphemes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} empty morpheme (plural empty morphemes)
  1. (linguistic morphology) A purely formal morpheme with no semantic content. Categories (topical): Linguistic morphology Related terms: empty morph
    Sense id: en-empty_morpheme-en-noun-jhq5HIlt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, linguistic-morphology, linguistics, morphology, sciences

Inflected forms

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