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Lexical morpheme

Morpheme --> smallest linguistic unit with meaning.


They are open-class. they can be free (stems) or
There are two types bound (affixes)

Grammatical
Linguistics Lexeme --> they list alphabetically in the
They have a close inventory. They can be free
It studies the structure dictionary
(function words) or bound (inflectional)
of language

- Negative prefixes with A (amoral) DE (defrost) DIS (dismal) IN (infinite) IL (illogical), IR


(irresponsible) MAL (malfunction) MIS (misread) NON (non-aligned) PSEUDO (pseudonym) and
UN (unexpected)
-Degree with ANTE (antedent), ARCH (archbishop) HYPER (hyperactive) MINI (miniskirt) OUT
(outrun) OVER (overeat) SUB (subway) SUPER (superman) SUR (surround) ULTRA (ultrasonic)
.
- Attitude with ANTI (antisocial) CO (co-produced) COUNTER (conter-balance) PRO (proportion)
Prefixation
- Time and order with EX (ex-president) FORE (foretell) POST (postgraduate) PRE (premature)
Lexicon. Characteristics of word- Forming new words by adding a prefix PROTO (prototype) RE (redecorate)
formation in English. Prefixation,
suffixation and compounding.
- Number UNI (unilateral) BI-DI (dichotomy) TRI (tricolour) POLY (polysyllabic)
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- Others AUTO NEO PAN SEMI VICE

-Form nouns from nouns--> diminutive (let, ette), status (dom, hood, ship...) and material (ful, ing...)
- Form nouns/adjectives from nouns/adjectives --> personality and nationality (ese, ism, ist, ite...)
Suffixation
- Form nouns from verbs --> activty and action (age, al, ation...)
Forming words by
adding a suffix - Form nouns form adjectives --> state and quality (dom, cy, ity , ness)
Word-formation
- Verb suffixes --> added to adjectives (en) nouns (ify) and nouns/adjetives (ise)
- Form adjectives from nouns --> material and 'having' (en, full, ian, ish, less...)
- Adjectives suffixes in borrowed and neoclassical --> al, ic, ive, ous...

-From verb to noun --> laught, answer, bore, throw...


-From adjective to noun --> daily, comic, marrieds...

Conversion -From noun to verb --> bottle, mask, coat, cash, mail...

An item change its word -From adjective to verb --> calm, dirty, dry...
class without the addition -Minor categories of conversion --> change of secondary
of an affix word class in nouns, verbs and adjective.
Word-formation

bottle - Nouns Compound --> subject + verb (sunrise) verb + object (haircut) verb
Compounding + adverbial (handwriting) verbless compound ( blackboard)
An expression is made up - Verbs compound -->
of more than one word
- Adjectives compound -->

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