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Morphemes chapter 4
This document discusses morphemes and morphology. It begins by defining key terms like morpheme, morph, and allomorph. A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a word, a morph is its actual form, and allomorphs are variant pronunciations of the same morpheme. There are two types of morphs: free forms that can stand alone as words, and bound forms that must be attached to other morphemes. Morphemes are also classified as lexical, carrying lexical meaning, or grammatical, specifying relationships. The document outlines characteristics of derivational and inflectional morphemes. It concludes by noting morphological differences among languages.
