Morphology and lexicology

Question 1

Root morpheme

Answer 1

this is a single morpheme that holds the key meaning of a word. Eg. House is a root morpheme- can have other morphemes added to give the word extra information

Question 2

Prefix

Answer 2

A prefix is a part added to the beginning of a word or base word. For example un-, pre-, re-

Question 3

Suffix

Answer 3

A Suffix is a word part added to the end of a word. For example -ful, -ing

Question 4

Free morpheme

Answer 4

this is a morpheme that can stand on its own without needing to be attached to anything ‘strawberry’ is an example of this

Question 5

Bound morpheme

Answer 5

bound morphemes are morphemes that need to be attached to a free morpheme in order to have any meaning. Think about the prefixes and suffixes

Question 6

Stem morpheme

Answer 6

made up of more than one morpheme eg, breaking- made up of break and ing

Question 7

Infix

Answer 7

when a bound morpheme is added within a word. Most commonly used in English colloquially- “Abso-bloody-lutely”

Question 8

Inflectional

Answer 8

When a bound morpheme is added to a word and changes its grammatical information. This means it would change the tense or plural of the word

Question 9

Derivational

Answer 9

Bound morpheme is added and changes or adds meaning to a word. This means the word most likely has its own dictionary definition