Morphology Flashcards
which is the study of the internal structure of words.
Morphology
the basic units of morphology ,
a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function
Morpheme
Free morphemes’
Lexical Morphemes, Functional Morphemes
Bound Morphemes
Derivational Morphemes, Inflectional Morphemes
are morphemes that can stand by themselves?
Free Morphemes
cannot stand alone and are usually tied to another morpheme.
Bound Morphemes
When a free morpheme has bound morphemes attached
stem
are open class– we can create new ones easily!
Lexical morphemes
are closed class – we rarely (almost never) create new ones!
Functional Morphemes – all other free morphemes
almost always change the part of speech of the word, but there are some exceptions.
Derivational morphemes
are the actual forms used to realize morphemes.
Morphs
One or two more complementary morphs
Allomorph
