Morphology

Question 1

Morphology

Answer 1

Morphology is the study of words and their parts. Each word consists of one or more morphemes, which is the smallest unit of meaning within a word.

Question 2

Root Morphemes

Answer 2

The root of a word is a single morpheme that contains the primary meaning of the word. Roots can have other morphemes attached to them to allow that word to carry extra information.

Question 3

Stem Morphemes

Answer 3

A word that has meaning but it may not be a single morpheme.

Question 4

Bound morphemes

Answer 4

A bound morpheme is a grammatical unit that never occurs by itself but is always attached to some other morpheme. The plural morpheme-sin dogs.

Question 5

Affixes

Answer 5

Affixation is the morphological process whereby anaffixis attached to arootorstem.

Question 5

Free Morpheme

Answer 5

A free morpheme is a grammatical unit that can occur by itself. However, othermorphemessuch asaffixescan be attached to it. The morphemedog.

Question 6

Inflectional morphemes

Question 7

Derivational morphemes