Parts of the speech and Lexical categories

Is the smallest unit of meaning in a language.

• Morphology

• Parts of the speech

• Morpheme

• Lexical categories

Are parts of speech:

• Time, tense and aspect

• Pronoun, verb, adjective and preposition

• Past, present and future

• Simple, progressive, perfect and progressive perfect

They can stand alone as complete words.

• Free morpheme

• Bound morpheme

• Lexical categories

• Parts of the speech

Free morphemes are divided into:

• Inflectional and Derivational

• Time and Aspect

• Past and Present

• Lexical and Functional

They cannot stand alone.

• Phonemes

• Free morphemes

• Bound morphemes

• Phonology

Bound morphemes are divided into;

• Derivational and inflectional

• Morphology and Morpheme

• Lexical and Functional

• Tense and Aspect

They are examples of bound morphemes:

• teach, book

• -'s, -s, -ing, -ed

• a, the, and, but

• re-, un-, -ly, ful

They are examples of free morphemes:

• teach, book

• -'s, -s, -ing, -ed

• a, the, and, but

• re-, un-, -ly, -ful

"-ness" is an example of:

• inflectional bound morpheme

• Functional free morpheme

• Derivational bound morpheme

• lexical free morpheme

It is responsible for how words are structured.

• Morphology

• Morpheme

• Grammar

• Time