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Morphology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Morphemes that can stand by themselves as a single word. For example: tour, open
        
        Lexical
        
        Set of ordinary nouns, adj.s that carry the content of the message. We can add words to them. It is an open class of words.
        
        Functional
        
        Set of functional words such as prepositions, conjunctions, articles and pronouns. We can't add words to them. It is a close class of words.
    - - Forms that cannot normally stand by themselves and they are attached to another form. For example: -er, -est
        
        Derivational
        
        Morphemes that are used to form new words by adding affixes to them, and change the grammatical category.
        
        All affixes are derivational (prefix + suffix)
        
        Inflectional
        
        Morphemes that are used to indicate the aspect of grammatical function, if the word is singular, plural, past tense, or other tenses.
        
        They are not used to form new words. We have 8 inflectional suffixes.