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U1 1 Morphology

The document discusses morphology, defining a morpheme as the smallest unit of meaning in language. It distinguishes between free morphemes, which can stand alone, and bound morphemes, which must attach to free morphemes. The document also categorizes morphemes into lexical and functional types, as well as derivational and inflectional bound morphemes.

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U1 1 Morphology

The document discusses morphology, defining a morpheme as the smallest unit of meaning in language. It distinguishes between free morphemes, which can stand alone, and bound morphemes, which must attach to free morphemes. The document also categorizes morphemes into lexical and functional types, as well as derivational and inflectional bound morphemes.

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Yule The Study of Language

MOPHOLOGY

A morpheme is the smallest unit of form or (unit of ) meaning in language

pencil is a noun

it’s an object used for writing

THE is an article

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FREE BOUND
… stand by themselves in writing …. are always attached to a FREE LEXICAL MORPHEME

LEXICAL FREE MORPHEMES DERIVATIONAL BOUND MORPHEMES

Nouns, adjectives, main verbs, adverbs when used as suffixes / USUALLY grammatical

OPEN class → INTRODUCTIONS / LOSSES category of a word

Discovery / invention simple - icity


FUNCTIONAL FREE MORPHEMES beauty -ful
Articles, prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs do - able

Personal pronouns use -ful

CLOSED class / UNLIKELY to have …….. -less

child -ish red -ish

INFLECTIONAL BOUND MORPHEMES

Suffixes

…. not change / grammatical


category

oldest

pencils

arrived

-ER older player cleaner


-en widen taken

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