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Morphology
Morphology
• Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies
word structure, especially in terms of morphemes.
It’s the study of word formation (as inflection,
derivation, and compounding) in language.
Morphemes
• A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit
in a language. In other words, it is the smallest
meaningful unit of a language. The field of
study dedicated to morphemes is called
morphology.
Types of
Morphemes
Lexical Functional
Morphemes Morphemes
Derivational Inflectional
Morphemes Morphemes
1. Free Morphemes:
• Free morphemes can occur alone.
Example:
• An example of a free morpheme is “bad”.
2. Bound Morphemes:
• Bound morphemes must occur with another morpheme.
Example:
• An example of a "bound base" morpheme is -sent in the
word dissent.
Types of free Morphemes:
1. Lexical Morphemes:
Lexical morphemes are called open class words and include
nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. New words can regularly
be added to this group.
Examples:
Examples are girl, man, house, tiger, sad, long, yellow, sincere,
Open, look, follow, and break.
2. Functional Morphemes:
Definition:
Word Formation Process (also called Morphological Process) in
which new words are produced either by modification of existing
words or by completely inventing new words, which in turn
become a part of the existing Language.
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