Comes from a Greek word meaning ‘shape’ or ‘form’ and is

used in linguistics.

Denote the study of words, both with regard to their internal structure and their combination or

formation to form new or larger units.

IntroductionMorphology

Free Morphemes

Bound Morphemes

Morpheme types

a word Tree can stand alone

So, it’s a free morpheme.

a word –s can not stand alone it needs

some association. Therefore, it is bound morpheme.

EXAMPLESFree Morphemes:

Bound Morphemes

Prefixes

Suffixes

Infixes

Types of bound MorphemesTwo Basic types

Infections

Bound morphemes which carry grammatical (or functional) meaning are called inflectionalaffixes and their function is to create new forms of existing lexemes.

Further categorization

Derivations

Derivation is one of the three major (and most productive) types of word-formationprocesses visible in English.

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