Morphology

Introduction to Morphology

Structured and form

Word

Content Words

Function

Words

Morphemes

Clear lexical meaning

Nouns

Verbs

Adjetives

Adverbs

Open clase

We can added

new words

No have clear lexical meaning

Conjuntions

Articles

Prepositions

Pronouns

Close clase

We don't added

no new words

Minimal unit

Free morphemes

Bound morphemes

no depend of other morphemes

Has meaning alone.

Depend of other morphemes

Bound roots

Affixes

Cannot use alone: -ceive

Preffixes

Suffixes

Inffixes

Derivational

Inflectional

Create a new words

New meaning

New grammatical category

Only change:

Person Comparative

Tense Superlative

Number Possesive