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Morphology, . - Coggle Diagram
Morphology
Branch of linguistics deals with structure and form of the words
MORPHEME
Minimal unit of meaning
Words can have one or more morphemes
A speech element having a meaning or grammatical function that cannot be subdivided into further such elements
It has relatively the same stable meaning in different verbal environments.
Free morphemes
Content Words
Clear lexical meaning
Open class
New words can be added
Adjectives
Verbs
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Function Words
Don't have a clear lexical meaning
Articles
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Pronouns
Bound Morphemes
Affixes
Derivational
A new word is derived when they're added to the original
Prefixes
Suffixes
Inflectional
Sufixes
In English there are 8
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Roots
Can't be used by themselves: cieve
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Person
Tense
Number
Complex words
Simple words
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