This article is a contrastive study of morphemes on lexical level in English and Chinese. Comparison is made with examples and statistics in such areas of the source and quantity of morphemes, the length and sound of morphemes, the form and meaning of morphemes, the position of morphemes in words and their effect on meaning, the role of new forms composed of morphemes, etc. It is believed that the discrepancies revealed in the study manifest the fundamental characteristics of the two languages and provide implications for resea...