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linguistic unit vs morpheme

morpheme vs linguistic unit

linguistic unit and morpheme both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
linguistic unit Yes No No No
morpheme Yes No No No
As nouns, morpheme is a hyponym of linguistic unit; that is, morpheme is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than linguistic unit:
  • linguistic unit: one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
  • morpheme: minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
Other hyponyms of linguistic unit include discourse, word, syllable, lexeme, formative, name, collocation, phone, sound, speech sound, sign.
linguistic unit (noun) morpheme (noun)
one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
Difference between linguistic unit and morpheme

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