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<p>from Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>In morphology, a '''cranberry morpheme''' is a type of [[bound morpheme]] that cannot be assigned a meaning nor a grammatical function, but nonetheless serves to distinguish one word from the other. <br /> <br /> ===Examples===<br /> The English word ''cranberry'' seems morphologically complex, since it must be distinguished from words such as ''raspberry'', ''blackberry'', and ''gooseberry''. Still, ''cran'' has no meaning and does not function as an independent [[word]]: ''cranberry'' is the only word in which ''cran'' appears. <br /> <br /> ===Comment===<br /> The existence of ''cranberry-''morphemes plays a role in the discussion whether morphology is word based or morpheme based (e.g. Aronoff 1976).<br /> <br /> ===Link===<br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Cranberry+morpheme&amp;lemmacode=949 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] <br /> <br /> ===References===<br /> *Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar.'' Cambridge, Mass: MIT-press.<br /> *{{: Spencer 1991}}<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Morphology]]</div>

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