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    This document discusses different types of morphemes, which are the smallest units of meaning in language. It describes free morphemes, like content words, that can stand alone as words, and bound morphemes, like inflectional affixes, that cannot stand alone and are added to base words to change their meaning or function. Specifically, it provides examples of content words like nouns, verbs, and adjectives, as well as function words. It also discusses derivational affixes that change the word class of a base word and inflectional affixes that mark categories like number, person, tense, and more without changing word class.

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    Norma Gabriela

    MORPHEMES Cuevas Quintero


    September 2023

    FREE BOUND

    ·
    Can stand alone as a word .
    "Cannot stand alone
    ·
    divided into content
    Are
    ·
    Are broken down into
    words and function words derivational and inflectional
    morpheries
    .

    -Content words :

    carry -

    Inflectional Influence :

    most of the content of base words signal a change


    a
    to
    sentence (like
    telegrams) in quantity
    gender person , ,

    e
    g-take out trash and
    tense 8 types
    .

    or .
    :

    wash dishes
    -pluralizing

    ↑
    -
    s

    -Function words :

    grammatical 2- possessive
    -'s

    role ,
    not so much meaning 3
    - Third person singular -s

    omitted for -ed


    and
    may
    be ↑- regular past tense
    abbreviation purposes
    -

    5- regular past participle-ed


    for example , "the WaS
    6-bresent participle-ing
    · mitted and it did not
    7- comparative
    - er

    the message
    change superlative est
    -

    8 -

    ·
    Most roots in English are
    Leave word class unchanged
    free morphemes -Devivational :

    Considered

    Root examples : lexical because they influence


    mal- phobia , phil -
    -
    , -logy the base word according to
    its grammatical and lexical
    Content words examples norns ,

    Assailed affixes
    :

    include
    verbs , adjectives ,

    School kid
    ,
    walk clean ,
    1 Prefixes (before the base)
    -

    , ,

    quick anti- un- im- pre- trans-


    , , ,
    ,

    Function words examples : 2 :

    Suffixes (after the base)


    articles auxiliaries , ,
    -ish ,
    -ous
    , -y , -ment ,
    demonstratives , quantifiers etc .
    -
    able ,
    -ism .

    Must be attached to
    ,
    · free morpheme

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