“ MORPHOLOGY “

MORPHOLOGY

is how language user understand complex words and how they creat new ones,

the study of the patterning of morphemes within a word

and how morphems combine to form new complex words.

MORPHEMES

BOUND MORPHEMESFREE MORPHEMES

LEXICAL MORPHEM

ES

FUNCTIONAL

MORPHEMES

DERIVATIONAL

MORPHEMES

INFLECTIO

NAL MORPHEM

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LEXICAL MORPHEMES

a morpheme which has a complete lexical meaning all on its own (lexicon means a list of word)

Example :

* Girl * Sad * Look* Man * Long * Follow* House * Yellow * Break* Tiger * Sincere * Go

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVES

FUNCTIONAL MORPHEMES

A morpheme whose purpose is to alter the grammar or sense of another morpheme (grammar means a system of words)

* The * at * He * and* a * in * She * nor* an * on * Her * or * above * We * but* So

ARTICLES CONJUCTIONPRONOUNSPREPOSITION

DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES

a new word with a new meaning (usually change grammatical

class)Can be prefixes or suffixes

INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES

Is inflection therefore is an affix used to change form and function only from the

grammatical point with no change in part of speech of the word as seen in the paradigms below