• outstanding problems in the
analysis of English morphology.
So far, we have only considered
examples of Englishwords in
which the different morphemes
are easily identifiable as
separate elements.
• we can propose morphs as the
actual forms used to realize
morphemes. For example, the
form cats consists of two morphs,
cat +-s, realizing a lexical
morpheme and an inflectional
morpheme (“plural”).
• the existence of allomorphs of a
particular morpheme. That is,
when we find a group of different
morphs, all versions of one
morpheme, we can use the prefix
Problems in morphological
description