this project is Morphology which is a branch of linguistics.

2. -Morphology
-Morphemes
-Types of Morphemes

3. What is
MORPHOLOGY ?

4. That means MORPHOLOGY studys how
phonemes are combined to form
words.
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Richards et al (1993)
“it is the study of
morphemes and their
different forms
(ALLOMORPHS) , and the way
they in word formations”
(p.237)
Nuwara & Ahmed
(2001)
“It is the study of internal
structure of words and of
rules by which words
formed” (p. 63)

5. What is
MORPHEME ?

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Greet Booij (2005)
Defined morpheme as the
smallest part of a word that has
a meaning and can not be
divided into smaller unit.

7. TYPES OF MORPHEMES:
Morphemes have a lot of types but
the most important ones are FREE
MORPHEMES and BOUND
MORPHEMES .

8. -According to Francis (1993), they are
divided to two types are:
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FREE MORPHEMES:
-Free morphemes defined by Nuwara & Ahmed (2001)
as words can stand alone and make sense called
ROOTS.
Examples: Hand – Lord – Cat

9. Lexical
Morpheme
Function words

10. Lexical Morphemes Function Words
- Nouns, (e.g.): Amna,
Hawa, father, Fauzia,
Hala, Aisha, Mother.
- Adjectives, (e.g.):
clever, sharp.
- Verbs, (e.g.): beat,
read.
- Propositions, (e.g.):
in, over, under…etc.
- Articles: a, the, an.
- Demonstratives:
these, those, that,
this.
- Pronouns: you, they,
we….etc.
- Conjunctions: and,
but, yet, if…etc.

11. -They are not words but parts of words occur before and
after free morphemes, we call them PREFIXES and
SUFFIXES.
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BOUND MORPHEMES:
-Bound Morphemes
are the opposite of
free morphemes,
they can not stand
alone and they have to
be with other
morphemes (FREE
MORPHEMES).
Examples: Ly, Un,
Dis, Ness

12. NOTE:
Some words such as :
Like, Able, Age, Less;
can be both Free
Morphemes and Bound
Morphemes.