Vocabulary: composition and acquisition 13/02/2024

A morpheme

• is a smallest meaningful unit in a language

• is a unit having a grammatical function.

• cannot stand alone.

Inflectional morphemes

• create new words.

• add grammatical information to a word.

• are attached at the end of a word.

A lexeme

• is a single meaning unit.

• consists of a verb and a particle.

• is attached to the root to create new words.

Vocabulary is

• a piece of linguistic information about a word, mostly in written form.

• the set of all words and phrases in a language.

• a person’s knowledge regarding a list of words that they use actively.

What is this?

build, builds, built, building

• It's a word family.

• It's a lemma.

• It's a phrasal verb.