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Morphology is the study of how words are structured and formed from smaller units of meaning called morphemes. Morphemes can be free-standing words or bound affixes. The document discusses morphological processes in English such as derivation, compounding, and conversion that form new words from existing morphemes. Suffixes and prefixes are provided as examples of derivational morphemes that can change a word's part of speech or meaning.
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- Examples of new words that have been created through these processes from different time periods and domains like technology, social media, and current events.
Morphological processes
Morphological processes involve the internal structure of words. There are two main types of morphological processes: [1] affixation, which involves adding prefixes or suffixes to free or bound morphemes, and [2] other word formations like compounding, reduplication, and clipping. Affixation can be inflectional, which changes word form without altering word class or meaning, or derivational, which alters word class or meaning. Some examples of morphological processes in English include adding -s for plural nouns, -ed for past tense verbs, and prefixes like un- or re- to change a word's meaning. Morphology is the study of these word formation rules and patterns.
Morphological change
Morphology is the study of word structure and classification. It examines the smallest meaningful units of language called morphemes, which can be free-standing words or bound affixes. There are two types of morphemes: free morphemes that can stand alone as words, and bound morphemes that must be attached to other morphemes. Bound morphemes are further divided into derivational morphemes, which change a word's meaning or part of speech, and inflectional morphemes, which change a word's grammatical function but not its core meaning. There are various word-formation processes in morphology, including compounding, acronym formation, borrowing, clipping, blending, and using names
Hstorical linguistics
A brief research about linguistics and its development across the time. Also, it explains the different periods of English
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This document discusses various morphological processes in English, including concatenative processes like compounding, affixation, reduplication, and non-concatenative processes like internal modification, conversion, and back formation. It provides examples for each process and explains how they change word meanings or word classes. Compounding combines words, affixation adds prefixes or suffixes, reduplication repeats parts of words, and internal modification changes vowels, consonants, stress, or tones. Conversion changes a word's class without altering form, while back formation derives a new word class from an existing form.
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Nabeela Taimur Ali presented on lexical borrowing. She speaks two varieties of the Luyia language as well as Swahili and English. Many words are borrowed between the languages she speaks. Borrowing occurs when languages are in regular contact, with words and phrases being adopted from the other language. Lexical borrowing refers to incorporating words from one language into another, especially nouns and verbs. Borrowing typically flows from the more prestigious language to the less prestigious one.
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In this topic you will learn Morphology, Morphemes, Difference in bound and free morphemes, Types of bound and free morphemes and Morphological Description.......Morphology is a branch of linguistics that explores the structure and formation of words in a language. It is concerned with the study of morphemes, which are the smallest units of meaning in a language. Morphology delves into how these morphemes combine to create words and how words, in turn, form larger units such as phrases and sentences.
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Morphology also examines the concept of morphological productivity, which refers to the extent to which a language allows speakers to generate new words using established morphological processes. Languages exhibit varying degrees of morphological complexity, with some relying heavily on inflections and derivations, while others may lean towards a more analytic structure.
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Morphology refers to the study of how words are created in a language. There are two main word formation processes: inflection and derivation. Inflection involves changing the base form of a word through processes like adding suffixes to change the word's grammatical function. Derivation involves processes like compounding, blending, clipping, and affixation to form new words. Some common word formation processes in English include coinage, borrowing, compounding, blending, clipping, backformation, conversion, and affixation through the use of prefixes and suffixes.
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- 31. Inflectional Morphemes in English tallest, sweetest Superlative Adjective taller, sweeter Comparative Adjective wanting, showing Present participle Verb wanted, shown (or showed) Past participle Verb wanted, showed Past tense Verb (he)swims, (it)breaks Third person Verb car’s, children’s Possessive Noun cars, churches Plural Noun Examples Grammatical Category Lexical Category
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