Morphology
Explore the fascinating world of morphology, the study of words and morphemes. Delve into free and bound morphemes, lexical and function words, and the structure of language.
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Morphology Presented by Asst.Prof. Estabraq R. Ibrahim
What is Morphology? Morphology is the study of words. Morphemes are the minimal units of words that have a meaning and cannot be subdivided further..
There are two main types: 1-Free morphemes can occur alone 2-bound morphemes must occur with another morpheme.
An example of a free morpheme is "bad", and an example of a bound morpheme is "ly." It is bound because although it has meaning, it cannot stand alone. It must be attached to another morpheme to produce a word. Free morpheme: bad Bound morpheme: -ly Word: badly
There are two groups of words: 1-Lexical words are called open class words and include nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. New words can regularly be added to this group. 2- Function words, or closed class words, are conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns; and new words cannot be (or are very rarely) added to this class.
