morphology.md

Morphology

Morpheme - the smallest meaningful unit in a language..

1. Free Morphemes - stand alone as individual words.

   Name	Examples	Open
   1. Lexical	Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs	✔️
   2. Functional	Prepositions, conjunctions, articles, pronouns	❌

2. Bound Morphemes - cannot stand alone as individual words.

   Affixes:

   • prefixes
   • suffixes
   • infixes
   • circumfixes

   Name	Description	Example
   1. Derivational	Create new words, and can change lexical category.	pre + determine = predetermine, teach + er = teacher
   2. Inflectional	Serve a grammatical role. Don't create new words or change the lexical category.	Plural -s, possesive -'s, past tense -ed

Source: YouTube: Morphology (part 1)