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Morphology
Branch of linguistics
Studies
The structure of words
And form of words
Words can be:
Content word
Function word
Free Morphemes
Don't depend of any other morpheme
Divided in:
Open class
Content word
Adverbs
Almost, always
Adjectives
Wonderful, beautiful
Verbs
Run, walk, eat
Nouns
The cat
Lexical meaning
Closed class
Function word
Prepositions
In, on, at, of, to
Pronouns
She, you, they, we
Articles
The, a, this, that, my
Conjunctions
Because, therefore
No lexical meaning
Bound Morphemes
Depend of other morphemes
Bound Roots
Can't be used by themeselves
Fract- Fracture - Fractured
Roots- ceive
Affixes
Derivational
Prefixes
un-happy
E.g: De- Pre- In- Un
Suffixes
read-able
E.g: Ion- Ly- Able- Er
New grammatical category
More concrete meaning
Inflectional
Suffixes
Cat- cats
E.g: Plural: s-ing-ed
Can't change the lexical category
Morpheme
Is the minimal unit of meaning
The meaning can be:
Grammatical
For instance
Part of speech
Lexical
Is the "dictionary" meaning
