Morphology - Presentation
Morphology - Presentation
Morphology - Presentation
Terminologies
Classification of Morphemes
Morphological Description
Morph = form or shape, ology = study of
Bound morphemes-units:
That must be attached or
bound to a free morpheme
Example: TREES
Open Class Morphemes:
Open Morpheme has independent
meaning.
It can stand alone.
Also known as content words.
Closed Class Morphemes
Closed Morpheme has dependent
meaning.
It can not stand alone.
Closed Class are not re-productive.
Closed class morphemes have listed functions
Definiteness
Comparison
Quantity
Conjoining
BOUND MORPHEME
Bound morphemes(affixes) must be attached to
the word.
Prefixes unclean
Infixes nowadays
Suffixes adjustment
Derivational Morphemes
Are those bound morphemes that we use in making new
words or making words of a different grammatical category
from the stem.
Example:
good(adj.)+-ness(derivational morpheme) =goodness(noun)
care(noun)+-ful(derivational morpheme) =careful(adj.)
A list of derivational morphemes concludes;
suffixes:-ish, -less, ly etc.
prefixes: re-,pre-, un-, ex-, mis-, co- etc.
Inflectional Morphemes
Are those morphemes that are used to indicate
aspects of the grammatical function of a word.
Example:
clean+(-ed)=cleaned tenses