This paper makes a terminological proposal: that the old term morph can be used for a minimal linguistic form. Many linguists (not only morphologists) need such a term, because we often refer to minimal linguistic forms, but the various terms used by linguists in roughly this meaning are either unclear or do not refer to forms. The term “morpheme” has three rather different meanings, and other terms such as “vocabulary item” are too abstract. The term “morph” can be used as the basis for defining other widely used terms such as “root”, “prefix”, and “suffix”, which are currently often defined as kinds of “morphemes”. It can also serve as the basis for a clearer definition of suppletion (involving suppletive morph sets) and morph variants, thus avoiding the confusions surrounding the term “allomorph(y)”.

中文翻译：

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变体形式为最小语言形式

本文提出了一个术语建议：可以将旧术语morph用于最小的语言形式。许多语言学家（不仅是形态学家）都需要这样的术语，因为我们经常指的是最小化的语言形式，但是语言学家所使用的各种术语大致上都含糊不清或不指称形式。术语“语素”具有三个截然不同的含义，而其他术语（例如“词汇”）则太抽象。术语“词素”可以用作定义其他广泛使用的术语（例如“根”，“前缀”和“后缀”）的基础，这些术语目前通常被定义为“词素”的种类。它也可以作为更清晰地定义补充（涉及补充词形集）和词形变体的基础，从而避免围绕术语“ allomorph（y）”造成混淆。