English Morphology - created from Mind Map

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Sythetic language, is a language that employ endings (called inflections) to indicate grammatical functions.

English has two types of language

Analytic language, one that depends mostly on word order for sentece structure and meaning

Open & Closed Classes of Morphemes

1. Nouns can change from according to number.

2. Change of "case" i.o.w play with the grammatical function of a noun, adjective or determiner.

Analytic Language & Synthetic Language

Subject + direct object+ indirect object

Closed morpholical classes

open morphollogical classes

The invariant forms belong to the "close classes" and the forms with variants (nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc ...) belong to the "open classes"