This document discusses different types of morphemes and how they combine to form words. It defines morphemes as the smallest units of meaning in a language. There are two main types of morphemes - lexical morphemes which have their own meaning and functional morphemes which alter grammar. Derivational morphemes add prefixes or suffixes to create new words with new meanings, while inflectional morphemes change word forms and functions through affixes like number, possession, and tense. Words are formed through the process of affixation by adding prefixes, suffixes, circumfixes, or infixes to morphemes.

3. the study of the patterning of
morphemes within a word and how
morphems combine to form new
complex words.

4. MORPHEMES
BOUND MORPHEMESFREE MORPHEMES
LEXICAL
MORPHEMES
FUNCTIONAL
MORPHEMES
DERIVATIONAL
MORPHEMES
INFLECTIONAL
MORPHEMES

6. a morpheme which has a complete lexical
meaning all on its own (lexicon means a list of word)
Example :
* Girl * Sad * Look
* Man * Long * Follow
NOUN VERBADJECTIVES

7. FUNCTIONAL MORPHEMES
A morpheme whose purpose is to alter the grammar or sense of
another morpheme (grammar means a system of words).
* The * at * He * and
* a * in * She * nor
ARTICLES CONJUCTIONPRONOUNSPREPOSITION

8. DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES
a new word with a new meaning
Can be prefixes or suffixes

10. INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES
Is inflection therefore is an affix used to change
form and function only from the grammatical

11. INFLECTIONAL
NUMBER
POSESSIVE
TENSE
COMPARISON
EX :
CHAIRS
EX: DINA’S
PEN
TONI DRINKS
WATER
MY BAG IS
CHEAPER
THAN YOUR
SHIRT

12. AFFIXATION
SUFFIXES
CIRCUMFIXE
S
INFIXES
PREFIXES
Example : -ion ( examine-ion-
examination )
Example : De-fores-tation
Example : Desire-able-ity
Example : Un- ( Un-able-unable )