Morphology

What is a lexeme?

• A basic lexical unit of a language

• A sum or stock of words employed by a language

• A unit of language as spoken, written or printed

• A list or collection of words and phrases usually alphabetically arranged and explained or defin

Identify one of the three meanings of Lexicon

• Is a supply of expressive techniques or devices.

• The vocabulary of a language, of an individual speaker or of a group of speakers or of a subject.

• Is the smallest meaningful linguistic unit and therefore the smallest linguistic sign

• A basic lexical unit of a language

Named the three main subdivisions of lexicology

• Semantic, morphosemantic

• Infixes, interfixes, sematics

• Affixes, prefix, suffix

• Morphophonemics, lexical semantics, and etymology.

What is a morpheme?

• The smallest meaningful linguistic unit and therefore the smallest linguistic sign

• A unit of language as spoken, written or printed.

• A sum or stock of words employed by a language.

• The basic unit of a given language resulting from the association of a particular meaning to a particular group.

What study word formation?

• Words compositions

• Analyses words, concepts relationships and meanings

• The methods, patterns, and processes that produce new words in a language.

• Sounds or combinations of sounds forming a unit expressing an object, idea or action in a language

Prefixes are attached at the____ of a word.

Suffixes are attached at the_____ of the word

Circle the suffix and affix of the following word

Answer explanation

Im pass able

Is the smallest meaningful linguistic unit and therefore the smallest linguistic sign.

Answer explanation

Morpheme

_____ is a science about words and their internal organization.