Morphemes, Prefixes, Suffixes

What are morphemes?

• The smallest independent unit of language.

• create a word that is completely different from its base

• form new words by combining to or more existing words

How many morphemes of "loves"

• 3

• 2

• 4

What is morphology?

• The study of the internal structure of words.

• The smallest independent unit of language.

• The study of sound systems or the patterns of sounds in a language.

How many morphemes of "disagreement"

• 2

• 3

• 1

What is affixation?

• create a word by shortening an existing word

• substitute one segment for another

• add an affix to a base

Which sentence describes derivational morphology?

• Adding a morpheme to produce a new word but the same lexeme.

• Adding a morpheme to produce a new word and a different lexeme.

• Adding a morpheme to produce the same word but a different lexeme.

In the English language inflectional morphemes can be...

• Prefixes only

• Suffixes only

• Prefixes and suffixes

In the English language derivational morphemes can be...

• Prefixes only

• Suffixes only

• Prefixes and suffixes

Morphology deals with the analysis of words into meaningful units.

• true

• false

A morpheme is...

• a kind of word.

• the smallest meaningful unit.

• the concrete realization of sounds.

• the abstract concept of sounds.