Morphology (Adryele Lima)

It is the study of the basic building blocks of meaning in language
1. Derivational
  1. happiness ← happy + ness; preview ← pre + view.
2. Inflectional
  1. plays ← play + s; cooler ← cool + er.
3. Cramberry
  1. permit, commit, submit
4. Content
  1. car, -able, -un.
5. Function
  1. and, plural -s
6. Morpheme: The smallest linguistic piece with a grammar function
  1. Free Morpheme
    1. Roots
  2. Bound morpheme
    1. Prefixes: Re-writte; mis-lead; re-turn
    2. Suffixes: kind-ness; quick-ly; bad-ly;
    3. Infixes: (not usual in english) speech-ometer;
  3. Derivational Morphemes
    1. Fundamental changes to the meaning of a word/stem
      1. Noun ← Adj
      2. Verb ←Noun
      3. Adj ← Adv
      4. Sometimes it can remain the same: Noun ← Noun (friend ← friendship)
    2. Derivational Pattern (DP)
      1. Addition of a derivational suffix or other affix usually applies to words of one lexical category (part of speech) and changes them into words of another category
        Combination of bases and affix. It's regularly produced
        Indicates part-of-speech meanings
    3. Prefixes: go before the root
    4. Suffixes: go after the root
  4. Inflectional
    1. Used to mark grammatical info
Mental system involved in the word formation
Studies the internal structures of words, in general
Free Morphemes
1. Stand alone with a specific meaning
  1. eat, date, weak
Bound Morphemes
1. Cannot stand alone with meaning ← It 's always added to one or more morphemes to form a word
  1. (ly) in greatly
  2. (un) in unable
  3. (ally) in occasionally
  4. (less) in helpless
Compound: The process of putting two words together to form a new one
1. Compound verbs
2. Compound adverbs
3. Compound adjectives
4. Compound nouns

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