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 term:

morpheme

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 definition:

a minimal unit of meaning or

grammatical function

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 term:

bound morpheme

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 definition:

a morpheme such as un-or-ed

that cannot stand alone and
must be attached to another
form (e.g. undressed)

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 term:

free morpheme

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 definition:

a morpheme that can stand by

itself as a single word

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 term:

derivational morpheme

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 definition:
a bound morpheme such as -ish
used to make new
words or words of a different
grammatical
category (e.g. boyish), in contrast
to an inflectional morpheme
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 term:

functional morpheme

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 definition:

a free morpheme that is used

as a function word, such as a
conjunction (and) or a
preposition (in)

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 term:

lexical morpheme

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 definition:

a free morpheme that is a

content word such as a noun or
verb

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 term:

stem

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the base form to which affixes

are attached in the formation of
words

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 term:

inflectional morpheme

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 definition:

a bound morpheme used to

indicate the grammatical
function of a word, also called
an “inflection” (e.g. dogs,
walked)
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 term:

morphology

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 definition:

the analysis of the structure of

words

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 term:

allomorph

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one of a closely related set of

morphs

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 term:

reduplication

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 definition:

the process of repeating all or

part of a form

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