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MORPHOLOGY
- Mental system involved in the word
formation Ways to form new words
- Derivation: Builds new words by
adding morphemes to roots by
affixation
- Prefixes
- eg. English prepositions and
adverbials
- re-
- re-
- eg. English prepositions and
adverbials
- Suffixes
- Suffixes forming
nouns
- -or
- -or
- Suffixes forming
verbs
- -ise
- -ise
- Suffixes forming
adjectives
- -less
- -less
- Suffixes forming
adjectives
- -wise
- -wise
- Suffixes forming
nouns
- Infixes
- Circumfixes
- Root
- The core of the word to which
other pieces attach
- The core of the word to which
other pieces attach
- Prefixes
- Compounding: Putting two words
together to build a new one
- Compound
verbs
- to daydream
- to daydream
- Compound
adverbs
- nowadays
- nowadays
- Compound
adjectives
- short-sighted
- short-sighted
- Compound
nouns
- earphones
- earphones
- Compound
verbs
- Abbreviations or Clipping : Cutting off
the beginning or end of a word
- Blending: fusion of
two words in one
- Acronyms: Words derived from the
initials of serveral words
- Initialism: Pronounced as a
sequece of letters
- Borrowing: borrow
words from foreign languages
- Neologism:Entirely new words
- Onomatopoeia: Words which
name is associated to their sound
- Derivation: Builds new words by
adding morphemes to roots by
affixation
- Studies the internal
structure of words
- Word: The smallest
independent unit of
language
- Badly
- Badly
- Morpheme: The smallest
linguistic piece with a
grammatical function
- Free
morphemes
- Bad
- Bad
- Bound morphemes
- ly
- ly
- Free
morphemes
- Word: The smallest
independent unit of
language
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