Morphology Flashcards
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Morphology
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The study of the structure of words
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What is a Morpheme
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The smallest written unit that has meaning
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Free Morpheme
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Able to stand on its own as a word
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Bound Morpheme
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Unable to stand on it’s own, must be bound to another word to make sense
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Inflectional Morpheme
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Doesn’t change the meaning of the word, but adds information such as plurality or tense
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Derivational Morpheme
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Changes the meaning of the word or the word class
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Root Morpheme
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The ‘semantic’ base of the word, is the smallest unit of meaning through which words can be built around
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What are Affixes
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Prefixes
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Suffixes
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Infixes
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