- Free Morphemes- Can exist independently eg. sist-assist,resist...
- Bound Morphemes- Can't not exist independently, should be with a host,and get meaning with prefix or suffix, eg, -ing/-ed/-er/pre-
- Morpheme is the smallest units in language: eg, algebra has three morphemes/ explanation has four syllables
- Morphology- how words are constructed out of morphemes or marked via other process,eg, derivational, inflectional, back-formations.
- Problems in morphological description is, historical influences and the effect of borrowed elements.
- Lexical (open) class of words- Words which can expend without limitation through process such as, compounding, derivation, borrowing,etc
- Functional-Preposition,Article,Conjunction eg, and,but,when,in,that,etc
- Derivational morpheme- Able to create new words with different parts of speech
- Inflectional morpheme- Change to form of words, but do not change the parts of speech by adding,eg, s(plural),ing,ed,en,est,er,'s,s.
Morpheme:
- Free morpheme- Lexical- functional
- Bound morpheme-Derivational- inflectional 1100208022 黃薏臻
