Lesson 1

Lesson 1

by I.A. Tustiawati

​Morphology

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It is the study of word formation, including the ways new words are coined in the languages of the world, and the way forms of words are varied depending on how they’re used in sentences

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How you form and understand new words, and how speakers of other languages do the same.

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​What do you think?

​¨Morpheme:

  as the smallest unit of language that has its own meaning

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¨Word :

  as one or more morphemes that can stand alone in a language

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​Simple or complex

​¨Words that consist of only one morpheme can be determined as simple or simplex words.

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¨ Words that are made up of more than one morpheme are called complex

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Multiple Choice

Morphology is the study of?

• word

• sentence

• part of sentence

• paragraph

Open Ended

Why do we need to study morphology?