The PowerPoint presentation is related to Word Morphology in field of linguistics.

1. WORDS
MORPHOLOGY

2. Orthographic words or Hyphenating
words
• These are Compound nature words.
• The use of Hyphen in these words is rarely used. However, it indicates
the fairly new word or well established by an individual writer at
specific place in their write up too.
• Tomorrow
• Goodbye
• Half past
• Street lamp
Hyphenation is used creatively.

3. Words as vocabulary items
• The difference between words and word form.
• Lexeme are the vocabulary items.
• The relation between the vocabulary words and word form.
• The relation is one of realization, manifestation or representation.

4. Grammatical Words
• A word in the sense of a lexical items with a certain meaning plus
certain syntactic and morphological properties, is referred to as a
Grammatical word.
• The concept of syncretism.
• Hit
• Cut

5. Identify the compound words in the list below
Justify Your answer.
• Weapons of the wealth destruction (WWD).
• Backward
• Steadfast
• Exercise book
• Stay-at-home
• Understand
• Jurisdiction
• Green house
• In your phase
• Men in grey suits
• Multiplex
• Middle-aged ladette wannabes

6. Morphemes And Morph
• Morpheme:
“The term is used to refer to the smallest unit that his meaning or serves
a grammatical function in a language”.
“Morphemes are the atoms with which words are built”.
By Francis Katamba, English Words
Morphs:
The physical representation/form that represents a morphem is called
Morph.
Morphs which are realize the same morphemes are called Allomorphs.
E.g a and an; the indefinite articles