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Morphology
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Introduction
Morphology is the study of the structure of words and
the rules of word formation.
1) to examine the inside structure of words;
2) to understand the way to produce new words;
3) to classify the words of English in terms of
morphological structure or word formation process.
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What Is a Word?
A word is a sound-meaning unit.
A word is the smallest meaningful unit which can be
used independently.
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What Is a Morpheme?
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a given
language.
Morphemes, just like words, are the meaningful units of
language. Morphemes are the building materials to create
new words.
The number of morphemes and the way in which
morphemes are combined are studied under the concept
the morphological structure of the word in question.
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Types of Morphemes
Free morphemes: the kind of morphemes which may
occur alone, or which may make up words by
themselves. For example, dog, word, open.
Bound morpheme: the kind of morphemes that cannot
occur alone, and which must appear with at least one
different morpheme. For example, dogs, wording,
opener.
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Types of Morphemes
Lexical words: open class words
Free morphemes
Functional words: closed class words
Derivational morphemes
Bound morphemes
Inflectional morphemes
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