Meaning of morphologize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make (something) morphological (structural).
   transitive, uncommon
2. To become, or cause (e.g. a phonetic feature) to become, (re)interpreted morphologically.
   ambitransitive
3. To decompose into morphemes (as).
   ambitransitive

Examples

“By morphologizing the tribade, anatomy paradoxically moves her closer to home: the erotic excess that was attributed to foreign women now can be found on the Christian bodies of "Lasses" and "young Wenches" who handle themselves as well as each other.”

“[…] and, moreover, it is subject to syntagmatic segmental processes which can morphologize the prosodic accent location (vowel lengthening as in the first three examples and rearticulation of the secondary stressed vowel as in the fourth).”

“In the word chlekʼwnts 'he broiled it (salmon)' which morphologizes as /č - lekʼʷ - ənts/ 'on - piece - 3.s.sub.3.s.obj.TRANS.-PAST', we have the processual 'pierce' as trajector, […]”

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