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Clarissa888784 Posted 15 years ago
Linguistics Studies

"oxen"

The word "oxen" can be considered as one morpheme or two morphemes?!?

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The word dogs consists of two morphemes and one syllable: dog, and -s, a plural marker on nouns

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  • The word dogs consists of two morphemes and one syllable: dog, and -s, a plural marker on nouns
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  • The word dogs consists of two morphemes and one syllable:
  • dog, and
  • -s, a plural marker on nouns
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Yes,I know that!The word "dogs" is a regular one for analysing.This kind of words also appears in the document that my teacher gives me.I'm confused with "oxen".I know it's a plural form,but I don't know if it can be considered as 2 morphemes (ox + en) or just one morpheme which combines 2 meanings ("ox" + plural meaning).This is my question!

Thanks!
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one morpheme which combines 2 meanings ("ox" + plural meaning).-- This is not a possible. '"Ox" + plural meaning' is two morphemes by definition.
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This is a tricky question.
I was interested, so I took a look around on Wikipedia.

If you take "dogs", for example, you have two morphemes: dog + s
The morpheme "dog" has a meaning, and so does the morpheme "s" (plural meaning). You can take another word, like "cat", and add the same plural meaning by adding "s" as an affix: "cats", plural.
Now, take "oxen". The morpheme "o
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Yes,I go to a linguistic class.^_^ But this question is coined by myself.I see "oxen" is different from other regular words.I don't know how to define it.So I come here for asking people for help.

Thank you very much for helping me!!!
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oxen
children

They are OE weak plural suffixes
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