For those who aren't too big on words, I created a flow chart for the morpheme section of the subsystem of morphology.
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Morphology is the study of the construction of words within the English language and they function of these words. We mainly focus on morphemes when referring to the construction of words and their classes.
Morphemes (not Morteinz, the insect spray) are the smallest unit in a word that actually has a meaning on its own. The smallest meaningful unit is defined as dividing the word with smaller words (morphemes) and having the same relevance and meaning as the bigger word. In other words, you cannot split up "hungry" into "hung" and "ry" because firstly "ry" is not an English word and "hung" has no relevance to "hungry". Morphemes also include prefixes (words that are placed in front of a subject such as 'predetermined'), infixes and suffixes (words placed at the
Different Types of Morphemes:
Free Morphemes: These are words that can stand alone and make sense
Eg. Monkeys: Keys is a free morpheme
Bound morpheme: these morphemes are words that cannot me by itself `es`, `s`, `ed`
Predetermined: Pre is a bound morpheme as well as an prefix
Affix is a bound morpheme which is added to a word to give a meaning
As mentioned earlier, "Pre" is also an prefix and thus, prefixes are affixes at the start of a word
Suffix- an affix at the end of the word
Eg determined: "ed" is an affix
Inflectional Morphemes: Are bound morphemes that is able to provide information about the sentence
Function morphemes are morphemes that provide us information such as the spatial awareness of the object, or even objects that are referable to ourselves. An example of this includes: "The farmer's potato on the ledge".
Farmer's is a function morpheme because it is referring to the owner of the subject
Potato, on and ledge are also function morphemes because it refers to the subject and where it is.
Morphemes (not Morteinz, the insect spray) are the smallest unit in a word that actually has a meaning on its own. The smallest meaningful unit is defined as dividing the word with smaller words (morphemes) and having the same relevance and meaning as the bigger word. In other words, you cannot split up "hungry" into "hung" and "ry" because firstly "ry" is not an English word and "hung" has no relevance to "hungry". Morphemes also include prefixes (words that are placed in front of a subject such as 'predetermined'), infixes and suffixes (words placed at the
Different Types of Morphemes:
Free Morphemes: These are words that can stand alone and make sense
Eg. Monkeys: Keys is a free morpheme
Bound morpheme: these morphemes are words that cannot me by itself `es`, `s`, `ed`
Predetermined: Pre is a bound morpheme as well as an prefix
Affix is a bound morpheme which is added to a word to give a meaning
As mentioned earlier, "Pre" is also an prefix and thus, prefixes are affixes at the start of a word
Suffix- an affix at the end of the word
Eg determined: "ed" is an affix
Inflectional Morphemes: Are bound morphemes that is able to provide information about the sentence
- It marks the tense of the word (past, present, future), person (first, second or thirds) and its case. case.
Function morphemes are morphemes that provide us information such as the spatial awareness of the object, or even objects that are referable to ourselves. An example of this includes: "The farmer's potato on the ledge".
Farmer's is a function morpheme because it is referring to the owner of the subject
Potato, on and ledge are also function morphemes because it refers to the subject and where it is.