Morphology

What definition of morphology was presented by George Yule?

• morphology is the study of inectional forms, parts-of-speech (lexical categories) and word formation

• "the study of forms," was originally used in biology, but is now also used to describe the study of basic "elements" in a language

• is the study of words, including the principles of their formation and their relationship to each other in language

• is the study of words construction

Morphemes are...

• the largest units of meaning in a language
• the smallest units of sound in a language
• the grammatical rules governing a language
• the minimal units of words that cannot be subdivided further

What types of morpheme do you know?

• Derivational morphemes and inflectional morphemes

• Free morphemes and bound morphemes

• Affix morphemes and root morphemes

• Compound morphemes and simple morphemes

What types of free morphemes do you know?

• Lexical morphemes and functional morphemes

• Compound morphemes and affixal morphemes

• Derivational morphemes and inflectional morphemes

What types of bound morphemes do you know?

• Compound morphemes
• Affixational morphemes
• Derivational morphemes and inflectional morphemes

Select appropriate definitions for the concepts: morphs and allomorphs?

• Morphs are the smallest units of meaning; allomorphs are the different forms of a morpheme.

• Morphs are grammatical structures; allomorphs are the meanings of words.

• Morphs are interchangeable forms of a word; allomorphs are the smallest units of sound.
• Morphs are the largest units of meaning; allomorphs are the same forms of a morpheme.

What is reduplication?

• Reduplication is the repetition of a word or part of a word to form a new meaning

• Reduplication is the process of creating acronyms from phrases

• Reduplication refers to the use of synonyms in a sentence

• Reduplication is a method of combining two different words