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Morphology
Morphology comes from a Greek word meaning
‘shape’ or ‘form’ and is used in linguistics to
denote the study of words, both with regard to their
internal structure and their combination or
formation to form new or larger units.
Morpheme meaning
Morphemes are defined as the
smallest meaning-bearing units in
language.
Morpheme types
There are three types of morpheme.
•Affixes
•Prefixs
•Suffixes
.
Affixes
The free morphemes are generally
also referred to as lexemes, and the
bound ones as affixes
prefixes
Affixes which come in front of a free
morpheme are prefixes.
suffixes
Those affixes which com after
morpheme is called suffixes.

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