1. Word is a dialectical unity of form and content , independent
unit of language to forma sentence by itself.
2. Morpheme: A morpheme is the smallest meaningful
language units.
MORPHEME
Root Morpheme
Affixational Morpheme
Free Root
Bound Root
Inflectional Morpheme
(run,go,phone,…)
(remit,uncount,…)
(s,es,ing,ed,est,er,..)
Devivational
Morpheme
Prefix
Suffix
(pre-,un-,con-,…)
(-ly,-ist,-ment,…)
3.
WORD
Simple Word
Derived Word
(girl,boy,big,follow,…)
(going,teacher,unhappy,…)
Compound Word
(ladykiller, white-wash,…)
4. Inflectional morpheme : create different forms of the same
word it carries the grammatical meaning.
Eg: open opens,opening,opened,…
Dericational morpheme: create new words and are studied in
lexicology.
Eg: Hope hopeless, hopelessly,hopelessness.
8. The baby are amusing means amusing baby.
The baby are amusing its parents:
9. the reason for the classification of suffixes
+ Suggests itself is the part of speech formed.
+ Be graded according to their productive degree or to their origin.
10. Noun-suffixes: -er, -or,-ing,-tion,-ness,-ish,…
Adjective- suffixes: -able,--ish,-ed,-less,-y,…
Verb- suffixes: -ize,-en,-fy,…
Adverb- suffixes: -ly,-ward,-wise,…