Morphemes And it classification

1. Welcome
Topic: Different Classes of Morphemes

2. Morpheme: A morpheme is the smallest meaningful
unit of a language
For example:
Incoming = in+ come+ ing
Morphemes

3. Morphemes
Free morphemes Bound morphemes
 Different Classes of Morphemes
For example: man, can, beauty

4. Free morphemes:
Lexical Grammatical

5. Lexical Morphemes
Nouns : Pen, Man, Mango
Adjectives : Kind, Beautiful
Main Verbs : Go, Read, Cheat
Adverbs : Happily, Homely
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Example
Grammatical morphemes
Auxiliary verbs : is , can , may
Determiners : a, the, much, little
Prepositions : to, on, into, up, by
Example

6. Morphemes
Free morphemes Bound morphemes
 Different Classes of Morphemes
For example: man, can, beauty For example : less, ness, ment

7. Bound morphemes
Derivational Inflectional
Class Maintaining Class Changing

8. Derivational morphemes Inflectional morphemes
ment = agreement > Agreements er = bigger
est = oldestble = agreeable > agreeably
Class Maintaining: hood in Boyhood
Class Changing: al in national

9. Morphemes
Free morphemes Bound morphemes
Lexical Grammatical Derivational Inflectional
Class Maintaining Class Changing

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