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Comes from a Greek word meaning ‘shape’ or ‘form’ and is
used in linguistics.
Denote the study of words, both with regard to their internal structure and their combination or
formation to form new or larger units.
IntroductionMorphology
Free Morphemes
Bound Morphemes
Morpheme types
a word Tree can stand alone
So, it’s a free morpheme.
a word –s can not stand alone it needs
some association. Therefore, it is bound morpheme.
EXAMPLESFree Morphemes:
Bound Morphemes
Prefixes
Suffixes
Infixes
Types of bound MorphemesTwo Basic types
Infections
Bound morphemes which carry grammatical (or functional) meaning are called inflectionalaffixes and their function is to create new forms of existing lexemes.
Further categorization
Derivations
Derivation is one of the three major (and most productive) types of word-formationprocesses visible in English.
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