David,
I think that by now we have come full circle, and are also possibly taxing the patience of the other members of this list.
You are saying that the morpheme is the "smallest linguistic unit that bears meaning". I could take you to task as to what is 'smallest', what is 'unit' and what is 'bears', but suffice it to say that it relies on this vague and ill defined concept of 'meaning', making the science of linguistics appear to me as but one big tautology.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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