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Free Morphemes, Bound Morphemes, Agglutinative, Function Words, Content…
Free Morphemes
Examples: Tree, Girl, Dog, Cat
Characteristics: Words that are broken down into units with small meaningful parts, categorized units
Definition: Units that could stand alone as words by themselves.
Non-Examples: Bound Morpheme, words that must be attached to a stand-alone word.
Bound Morphemes
Definition: units that must be attached or bound to a free morpheme.
Characteristics: Either prefixes or suffixes.
Examples: Trees (The "s" is a bound morpheme) Replay, unable, cheaper
Non-Examples: Free Morphemes such as tree, dog, cat. Words written as separate words. Words that can stand alone.
Agglutinative
Definition: A type of language that combines many morphemes into a word.
Characteristics: Common feature of Basque. The conjugations of verbs are done by adding different prefixes or suffixes to the root of the verb. Parts of words that are "glued" together
Non-Examples: Synthetic language
Examples: Turkish, Korean, Cree, Basque :
Function Words
Definition: Words with little Lexile meaning and serve more for grammatical purposes.
Characteristics: Words in a sentence that signal a grammatical relationship with the other words in a sentence. Includes determiners, quantifiers, pronouns, auxiliaries, prepositions, conjunctions, intensifiers, interjections, and particles.
Examples: The word "do" in the sentence: "do you go to school here?" Other examples: of, at, in, it
Non-examples: Content words. Nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives. Words that do not serve the purpose of a grammatical relationship in a sentence.
Content Words
Definition: Words that carry the main meaning of a sentence.
Characteristics: words that are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs. People, places, actions, descriptive words.
Examples: New York, George, Purple, Slowly
Non-examples: Function words or words that serve as a grammatical purpose in a sentence.
