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Morphology - Coggle Diagram
Morphology
Types words
Open category
Closed category
Simple
Complex
Compound
Unit of study: morphemes
SMALLEST UNIT OF MEANING
Classification
Roots
Affixes
Derivational:
do
change the category of the word.
Inflectional: add grammatical information/ do
not
change the category of the word/ only suffixes.
-s (plural, first person simple, genitive)
-ed (past simple/participle)
-en (past participle/participle)
-ing (continuous aspect, for example)
-er/-est (comparatives and superlatives)
Prefixes
Suffixes
study of word formation/word structure