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Morphology Basics (Morphemes (smallest Meaning distinguishing units)…
Morphology Basics
Morphemes
(smallest Meaning distinguishing units)
lexical info
grammatical info
bound
Morphemes
derivational
prefixes
suffixes
inflectional
suffixes
free
Morphemes
lexical
grammatica
l
Portmanteau morphemes
single indivisible Morpheme which realizes more than one meaning
were
Formatives
pro
duce
,in
duce
Combining forms
borrowed as isolated morphemes these elements stem from different languages
Unique morphemes
bound morphemes occurring in only one fixed expression in a language
cran
berry
phonological conditioning
the pronunciation of morphemes depends on the phonological context and is rule based and predictable
Allomorphs
Text
s
,Fax
es
Morphological conditioning
is
unpredictable
Allomorph is determined by specific morphemes
Courage
vs
courageous
Definition
Morphology
: The study of the grammatical structure of words and their categories.