types of morphemes

In this section we talked about morphemes and how they can change or complement to the meaning of a word. Morphology: word formation Morpheme Is the smallest unit of a word with meaning, example: un believable. Affix: is a morpheme that comes at the... More

In this section we talked about morphemes and how they can change or complement to the meaning of a word. Morphology: word formation Morpheme Is the smallest unit of a word with meaning, example: un believable. Affix: is a morpheme that comes at the begining of a word. Suffix: morpheme that comes at the ene of the main morpheme. Those are known as bound morpheme. Bound morpheme: can not stand alone as a word, it needs a base morpheme to have meaning eg: ly, s, tion Base morpheme: morpheme that give a word its meaning, it is like the principle morpheme. Eg invitation in this example invi is the base morpheme. Free morpheme: it is a morpheme that can stand aloje as a word , eg: Cat or able: you know the meaning alone, it does not need another morpheme to have meaning. Inflection: they can only be suffix, they change the meaning of the words, eg: tion, ed Less