Morphology (Review)

It refers to the study of how words are created in a language.

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

It refers to the change in the base form of a word (root or stem).

• Morpheme

• Morphology

• Derivation

• Inflection

...the minimal unit of a word.

• grapheme

• morpheme

• lexicon

• phoneme

...morphemes that stand by themselves as single words

• free morphemes

• bound morphemes

• derivational bound morphemes

• graphemes

Lexical and functional morphemes are the two main types of...

• inflections

• derivations

• free morphemes

• bound morphemes

Nouns, adjectives, and verbs carry their full meaning in the word itself. These are called...

• free morphemes

• lexical morphemes

• derivational bound morphemes

• parts of speech

The words that bring a function inside of them are known as...

• lexical free morphemes

• derivational bound morphemes

• functional morphemes

• free morphemes

They refer to those bound morphemes that create new words out of/with a free morpheme.

• Inflectional morphemes

• Lexical morphemes

• Functional Morphemes

• Derivational morphemes

These are morphemes that help the words to change their grammatical function.

• Inflectional morphemes

• Lexical morphemes

• Functional Morphemes

• Derivational morphemes

There are two processes involved in Morphology: