MORPHOLOGY

DEFINE

100

term for the study of forms and elements

MORPHOLOGY

200

the minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function

MORPHEME

300

Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, CONTENT WORDS

LEXICAL MORPHEME

400

Articles (a, the), Conjunctions (and, because), Prepositions (on, near), Pronouns (it, me)

FUNCTIONAL

500

any of the versions of a morpheme, such as the plural endings s (as in bats ), z (as in bugs ), and iz (as in buses ) for the plural morpheme.

ALLOMORPHS

DEFINE

100

can stand alone as a word

FREE MORPHEME

200

Attached to another form (affixes)

BOUND MORPHEME

300

Used to make new words

Can make a word a different grammatical category.

I.e. encourage (verb)  + ment

Encouragement (noun)

DERIVATIONAL

400

Indicates the grammatical function of a word.

Plural, singular, past/present/future tense, comparative, or possessive

English has 8- they are all Suffixes 

/’s/ /-s/  /-s/ /-ing/ 

/-ed/  /-en/  /-est/  /-er/

INFLECTIONAL

500

consisting of no phonetic form, that is proposed in some analyses as an allomorph of a morpheme that is ordinarily realized by a morph having some phonetic form. Examples: The plural form that is realized in two sheep is Ø, in contrast with the plural -s in two goats

ZERO MORPHS

State of the Morpheme

100

Discussing

Present participle

200

Chewed

Past tense

300

Taken

Past participle

400

Boldest

Superlative

500

Quieter

Comparative

The BREAKDOWN

100

DANGEROUS

DANGER- root- free- lexical

OUS- suffix- bound- derivational

danger (noun) -> dangerous (adjective)

200

CHEERFUL

CHEER- root- free- lexical

FUL- suffix- bound- derivational

cheer (verb) -> cheerful (adjective)

300

SAILING

SAIL- root- free- lexical

ING- suffix- bound- inflectional

present tense

400

UNDESIRABLES

UN- prefix- bound- derivational

DESIRE- root- free- lexical

ABLE- suffix- free- derivational

S- suffix- bound-inflectional

PLURAL

500

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENT

ANTI- prefix- bound-derivational

DIS- prefix- bound- derivational

ESTABLISH- root- free- lexical

MENT- suffix- bound-derivational

NOUN

FREE ROUND

100

CATS

what is the -s in this word.

inflectional - plural

200

cats - dogs- horses

have examples of this kind of morpheme.

inflectional

allomorph

300

UNFRIENDLIEST

how many morphemes does this word have and what are they?

un- prefix- bound- derivational

friendly- root- free- lexical

est- suffix- bound- inflectional

400

fish + Ø 

is an example of ...

a zero morph

500

ceive 

duce

peat

are examples of 

a bound stem

receive

reduce

repeat