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    This document discusses the key concepts of morphology, which is the study of word structure and formation. Morphology breaks language down into the smallest units of meaning called morphemes. There are two main types of morphemes - bound morphemes that must be attached to other morphemes to form words, and free morphemes that can stand alone as words. The document also defines important morphological terms like affixes, allomorphy, derivational and inflectional morphemes, and blends. It concludes by defining homonyms, homophones, and homographs which are words that are similar in spelling or sound but different in meaning.

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    This document discusses the key concepts of morphology, which is the study of word structure and formation. Morphology breaks language down into the smallest units of meaning called morphemes. There are two main types of morphemes - bound morphemes that must be attached to other morphemes to form words, and free morphemes that can stand alone as words. The document also defines important morphological terms like affixes, allomorphy, derivational and inflectional morphemes, and blends. It concludes by defining homonyms, homophones, and homographs which are words that are similar in spelling or sound but different in meaning.

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    CHAPTER 3

    MORPHOLOGI : THE WORDS OF LANGUAGE


    Morphologi is the study of word structure and word
    formation. A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in
    language that carries meaning. Morphologi is important for
    english language learners because it breaks down language and
    creates patterns of meaning of speakers.
    For example :
    Once a speaker understands the morpheme of s of ing, they
    will be able to apply and comprehend that construct of
    language with many different words.
    IMPORTANT TERMS
    Morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that can carries
    meaning.
    1. Bound morpheme : a morpheme that cannot stand by itself
    to form a word, it most be joined to other morphemes.
    2. Free morpheme : a morpheme that by itself can function as a
    word in a language.
    3. Derivational morpheme : when a morpheme is added to a
    stem or root to form a new stem or word, possibly, but not
    necessary, resulting in a change in syntactic category. The
    result of a derivational process is a new word.
    4. Inflectional morpheme : serve as grammatical markers that
    indicate tense, number, possession, or comparison.
    Inflectional morphemes in English include the suffixes s (or
    es); s (or s); -en; -er; -est; and ing. An inflectional
    morpheme never changes the grammatical category of a
    word. For example both old and older are adjectives.
    AFFIX

    Affix : a bound morpheme that attaches to a root or stem


    that occurs before (prefix), after (suffix), in the middle of
    (infix), and around (circumfix) stems (root morphemes).
    Derivational affix : an affix by means of which one word is
    formed (derived) from another. The derived word is often of a
    different word class from the original.
    Inflectional affix : serve as grammatical markers that
    indicate tense, number, possession or comparison.
    Inflectional affix an affix that expresses a grammatical
    contrast that is obligatory for its stems word class in some
    given grammatical context, does not change the word class
    of its stem. Example (the es in BUSES).
    ALLOMORPHY any of the variant forms of a morpheme.
    Clipping in linguistic, clipping is the word formation process
    which consists in the reduction of a word to one of its parts.
    clipping also known as "truncation" or "shortening". (Ex
    Clipping DO NOT to DON'T).
    Acronym an abbreviation formed from the initial components
    in a phrase or a word. (Ex IMB - International Business
    Machines)
    Blends / Consonant clusters : a sequence of two or more
    consonant sounds within a syllable. (Ex BL in Blend).
    HOMONYMS, HOMOPHONES, HOMOGRAPHS
    Homonym is A word that is spelled and pronounced like another
    word but is different in meaning.
    Homophone is Words that are pronounced a like but have
    different meanings and spellings.
    Homograph is a word that is spelled like another word but that is
    different in origin, meaning, or pronunciation.

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