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Classification of morphemes (3)
The document classifies morphemes into two main categories: lexical morphemes, which are content words like nouns and verbs, and grammatical morphemes, which are function words like articles and prepositions. It further breaks down morphemes into free and bound types, with free morphemes like boy and write able to stand alone as words, and bound morphemes like prefixes and suffixes only occurring attached to other morphemes.
Classification of morphemes (3)
- 1. Classification of Morphemes Preparedby Ayesha Aslam Farwa Khalid
- 2. Classification of Morphemes RonaldW. Langacker in his book Language and its Structure has divided morphemes into two classes: lexical morphemes grammatical morphemes
- 3. Lexical morphemes arelike boy write paper pen
- 4. Grammatical morphemes arelike some with a the an
- 5. Morphemes Morphemes are theminimum grammatical forms of a language. Some of them can occur alone, others cannot. Forms which do not occur alone are bound morphemes, and those which occur alone are free morphemes. The whole classification can be represented in the following manner Slide 6
- 6. Morpheme Free Bound Prefix Infix Suffix DerivationalInflectional Bound bases Class- maintaining Class-changing
- 7. Morpheme Free Bound Prefix Infix Suffix DerivationalInflectional Bound bases Class- maintaining Class-changing