MORPHEME ANALYSIS DEVICE

In breaking a syntagm, such as a phrase, a clause, a sentence, or sentences, into a succession of analyzed morphemes, use is made of at least one group of morphemes included in the syntagm which includes two or more morphemes in a customary order. These two or more morphemes of each group are stored in a dictionary together with a descriptor, such as TIME or ANGLE, descriptive of the group, and an identifier or number indicative of the customary order. Selected by a separating unit, candidate morphemes for the analyzed morphemes are stored, together with, if any, the descriptor and at least one of the identifier or a mark, in a memory as memorized morphemes. An output unit selects those memorized morphemes which are accompanied by a common descriptor descriptive of a single group and either the identifier or the mark indicative of the customary order of morphemes in the group, and outputs these as the analyzed morphemes.