The document discusses key concepts in morphology including words, morphemes, and affixes. It defines a word as a sound or group of sounds that expresses an idea, and notes that orthographically a word is a group of letters separated by spaces. It distinguishes between word forms, which are the concrete representations of lexemes, and lexemes, which are the abstract representations. The document also defines bound and free morphemes, noting that bound morphemes like prefixes and suffixes must attach to other morphemes while free morphemes can stand alone. It provides examples of roots, stems, bases, prefixes, suffixes, and infixes.

1. MORPHOLOGY What is word? Word is a sound or sound groups articulated that express a idea. What is word? Orthographically. It is a group of letters separated by spaces. WORD

2. WORD Could you enumerate the words of these sentences? - Sergio and Luz walk by the square. - Sergio walks by the square. - Sergio walked by the square.

3. WORD All these graphics, Are words? cows floor letter violet by ten

4. WORD FORM AND LEXEME What is the difference between word-form and lexeme?

5. Word- Form Definition.- It is the representation o realization of a lexeme. How many do word-forms have the verb “go”? GO goes - going - went - gone 1 2 3 4 5

6. Lexeme Definition.- Abstract representation of a word-form. It’s the key member of the inflectional paradigm. What is the lexeme of the verb “go”? GO goes - going - went - gone Lexeme

7. MORPH, MORPHEME AND FORMATIVE Morph .- It is the concrete representation of a morpheme. un - touch - able MORPH MORPH MORPH

8. MORPH, MORPHEME AND FORMATIVE Morpheme .- The minimal unit of grammatical analysis. Now, you could identify what is morph and what is morpheme? MORPH MORPH MORPH un - touch - able “ not” “L” “able to be” adj. f. morpheme morpheme morpheme

9. MORPH, MORPHEME AND FORMATIVE Formative .- Distributional segment of a word-form independient. This sheep is eating sheep 1 formative These sheep are eating sheep 2formatives [sheep and Ø (of the plural)] Note.- Formative covers both “morph” and “empty morph”.

10. BOUND MORPH A bound morph can only occur in a word- form in conjunction with to least other morph blender blend - er winner win - er shouts shout - s bound morph

11. Bound morph is a unanalysable morph, they are affixes which can be divided into prefixes or sufixes which are attached before or after of a base. Morphs which realize lexemes. dis - like un - clear colour - ed

12. FREE MORPH A free morph can occurs in isolation which can also be a word-form. blender blend - er winner win - er shouts shout - s Free morphs

13. Also the free morphs don’t need of other morphs to undertand its meaning. f ree - dom c ross - fire c ross - bar b ook - s

14. Allomorp and manteau morph These are explain by another group.

15. Root It’s a basic part always present in a lexeme. It’s further analyzable either in terms of derivational or inflectional i.e it remains when all derivational or inflectional affixes have been removed.

16. Stem Is of concern only when dealing with inflectional morphology but need not be complex. All inflexional affixes have been removed. Example . gobernment – s stem

17. Base A form in which can be added suffixes, prefixes. Example. Dis- appear – ed Base

18. Affix Bound morphs which reali z es analyzable lexeme. It may be derivational like English. Example. - ness and pre- or inflectional like English plural - s and past tense – ed.

19. Prefix Is a segment that always appears before a base. Example. un - happy

20. Suffix Is a segment that always appears after a base. Example. touch- able

21. Infix It’s an affix inserted inside a stem. Example. Salt ell are.