Assignment 1 of English Morphology

Answer these following questions :

1. Please explain why we can call affixes as bound morpheme?

2. The word “revises” including free morpheme or bound morpheme?
3. Can we say acronym is a word?
4. Why there is reduplication in morphology?

Answer :

1. Morphemes are the smallest units in a language that have meaning. They can be
classified as free morphemes, which can stand alone as words, or bound morphemes,
which must be combined with another morpheme to form a complete word. Bound
morphemes typically appear as affixes in the English language.
2. Free morpheme
3. Linguists seem to agree that acronyms really are words. The linguistic phenomenon they
represent is known as “blending,” and although the use of acronyms was once a lot rarer
than it is today, we can quite safely say that acronyms are words, even if they don't
appear in any dictionary.
4. reduplication to emphasize the meaning of the word repeated and to denote a plural or
event happening in more than one place.