MORPHOLOGY
is how language user
understand complex words and how they creat new ones, the study of the
patterning of morphemes within a word and how morphems combine to form new
complex words.
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Free Morphemes : are
single morphemes which constitute
Bound Morphemes : are morphemes which
can only occur in word Attached to other morphemes : prefixes, suffixes,
infixes
Lexical Morphemes : a morphemes which has a
complete lexical meaning all on its own. Example : Girl (Noun),
Sad (Adjectives), Look (Verb)
Functional Morphemes : A morphemes whose purpose
is to alter the grammar or sense of Another Morphemes
Example : The (articles),
at,in (preposition),he, she, (pronouns),
And, or (conjuction)
Derivational Morphemes : a new word with a new
meaning (usually change grammatical Class ) can be prefixes or suffixes.
Example : *
Un- (Prefixes) : Verb ( happy ) Verb ( Unhappy
)
*-Al (suffixes) : Noun
( institution ) Adjective ( Institutional )
Inflectional
Morphemes : in inflection therefore is an affix used to change form and function Only
from the grammatical point with no change in part of speech Of the
word as seen in the paradigms below.
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Example II :
For Yulia : thank you so much for ur posted, but I have question what the meaning of morphology and why we must study about it?
BalasHapusThanks
thank you marissa, ok I think morpgology is a study about how language user understand complex word, and why we must study morphology so that we better understand the meaning of a word by word have meaning.
BalasHapus