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An Introduction to Morphology - Coggle Diagram
An Introduction to Morphology
Is a branch of linguistics that deals with the structure and form of the words in a language
All words can be divided into two categories
Content Words
These are words that have
a clear lexical meaning
This class is composed of
Verbs
Adjectives
Nouns
Adverbs
Content words are
considered
Open Class
Function Words
Do not have a clear lexical meaning
but do a serve a functional purpose in a language
Function words are
considered a
Closed Class
These are words such as
Articles
Prepositions
Conjuctions
Pronouns
Words are made up one piece but many other words are made up of more than one component
These components are called morphemes
MORPHEMES
A morpheme is the smallest unit
of meaning in a language
Free Morpheme
Is a morpheme that can stand alone as a word. A free morpheme is
the opposite of a bound morpheme
Open Class Words
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Close Class Words
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Most words consist of more than one morpheme
A morpheme cannot be reduced into smaller parts without a loss of meaning
Bound Morphemes
Is a word element that cannot stand
alone as a word, including both prefixes and suffixes
These are further divided into two categories
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