Morphemes

Free morpheme

• It can be uttered alone with meaning

• It cannot be uttered alone with meaning

• Part of a word that has the principal meaning

• Morphemes that occur before a base

Bound morphemes

• They are always annexed to one or more morphemes.

• They can be uttered alone with meaning.

• It is the part of the word that has the main meaning

• Straight or bright are examples of them.

It is a short segment of a language that has meaning and cannot be devided into smaller meaningful part.

• Base

• Affix

• Morpheme

• Suffix

Bases

• An example is the word woman in "womanly"

• Most of them in English are bound morphemes.

• There are of three kinds, one of them is prefixes.

• They come last in a word.

Types of Affixes

• Free and Bound

• Prefixes and bases

• Prefixes and Suffixes

• Derivational and Inflectional

Additive meanings refers to...

• An individual stock of morphemes

• Different degree of awareness

• Meanings of morphemes are unstable.

• Methaphors die as language changes.

They are bound morphemes that occur before, within or after a base.

• Infixes

• Prefixes

• Suffixes

• Affixes

How many suffixes are there in the following words?: friendliest and countrified

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which is NOT a characteristic of inflectional suffixes?

• They come last in a word

• They do not pile up

• They change the part of speech of a word

• They go with all stems

After an inflectional suffix one can sometimes add a derivational suffix.

• True

• False