Critical considerations about the notion 'morph' and its function in the complex relationship between morph – morpheme – word The starting point of the following contribution was the consideration that in current introductions to linguistics (or morphology) the linguistic term 'morph' is often not classified and defined with the same precision as its necessary counterpart 'morpheme' or sometimes it is not used at all. Against the background of this observation has aroused the question if the structuralist notion 'morph' is still useful in modern morphology? The investigation starts therefore with an outline of the history of the terms 'morpheme' and 'morph' with the facts to keep in mind that 'morpheme' was coined pre-structuralist, but ma...