Morphology, Linguistics

Lexicon is

• A branch of Linguistics

• the list of the words of any language

• None of them

Morphology is

• A branch of Linguistics

• The study of words structures

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

What are words?

• Something that is arbitrary

• pairing of sound and meaning

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2D

CCSS.L.K.2C

CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3D

The Aims of Morphology are

• Identification of morphemes

• Study of meaning

• Identification and study meaning of morphemes

• Studies and identifies morphemes and assign meaning to them

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

What are morphemes?

• Suffixes

• Small units of words

• the study of words structures

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Morphemes are grouped into the following classes

• Closed and open

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

Free morphemes are

• Morphemes that cannot stand alone as a word, and must be attached to a free morpheme

• Words or morphemes that keep the same form every time used and are unchangeable, including conjunctions

• Words that are made up of only one morpheme and can stand alone as an English word

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Bound morphemes are

• Words or morphemes that keep the same form every time used and are unchangeable, including conjunctions

• Morphemes that cannot stand alone as a word, and must be attached to a free morpheme

• Words that have morphemes that change depending on the grammar and meaning of a sentence, including nouns

Inflectional bound morphemes

• Can change the meaning of the entire word

• Can not change the meaning of the word

• Can stand by themselves

Derivational morphemes

• Never change the part of speech of the word

• Often change the part of speech of the word

• Words that have morphemes that change depending on the grammar and meaning of a sentence, including nouns