1 DEFINITIONS
1.1 Biology the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.
1.2 The term morphology is Greek and is a makeup of morph- meaning 'shape, form', and -ology which means 'the study of something'. The term is used not only in linguistics but also in biology as the scientific study of forms and structure of animals and plants, and in geology as the study of formation and evolution of rocks and land forms. We are going to stick to morphology in linguistics, as the scientific study of forms and structure of words in a language.[1] Morphology as a sub-discipline of linguistics was named for the first time in 1859 by the German linguist August Schleicher who used the term for the study of the form of words.[2] Today morphology forms a core part of linguistics.
1.3
a. the patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation, andcomposition.
b. the study and description of such patterns.
c. the study of the behavior and combination of morphemes.
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2 Fill in the following chart and paste it in your blog
Word
|
Definition
|
Example
|
Morpheme
| A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word | pig |
Free Morpheme
| Are those which can stand alone as words of a language | pig |
Bound Morpheme
| Are those that cannot stand alone as a word | -ed |
Prefix
| A letter or group of letters attached to the beginning of a word that partly indicates its meaning | co- |
Suffix
| A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word | -ness |
Infix
| A word element that can be inserted within the base form of a word to create a new word or intensify meaning. | |
Affix
| A word element--a prefix, suffix, or infix--that can be attached to a base or root to form a new word. | |
Derivational Morpheme
| An affix that's added to a word to create a new word or a new form of a word. | indiference |
Inflectional Morpheme
| A suffix that's added to a word to assign a particular grammatical property to that word. |
3. Fill in the following chart:
Word
|
Number of Syllables
|
Number of Morphemes
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Unlikely
| 4 | 4 |
Happiness
| 3 | 3 |
Loves
| 2 | 3 |
Morphology
| 4 | 4 |
syntax
| 2 | 2 |
4. Create a chart where you explain and give an example of at least 4 word formation processes.