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Morphology, Morphological analysis, Morphological processes - Coggle…
Morphology
Morphological structure of languages
Inflecting languages
Show different forms and it is possible to break the words into smaller units and label them
Agglutinative languages
To express composite ideas forming a word-sentence.
Isolating languages
It is composed of free morphemes
Study of the structure and formation of words
Moropheme
The smallest unit that can carry meaning in a word.
Free Morpheme
It can stand alone as own word
Bound morpheme.
occur only in combination
Derivational
It are affixes which are added to a lexeme to change its meaning
Sad sadly
Steam
When a root morpheme is combined with affix, it forms a stem
Inlove
Inflexional
It are affixes which carry grammatical meaning
Walk Walking
Root
It cannot be analysed into smaller parts
love
Morphological analysis
It consists of determining what kind of word or grammatical category each word forms in a sentence.
Morphological processes
Alter stems to derive new words.
Inflection
change the form of a word so that it expresses information
car / cars
Derivation
change the syntactic category of a word
Active + ity : Activity
Semi-affixes
are bound but which retain a word-like quality
bird-like or birdlike
Clitization
A clitic is an element that behaves like an affix and a word
The girl's penguin