Linguistic Morphology: A Description
LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH
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INTRODUCTION
In a language the importance of know an extensive set of words and the respective use of these and all the rules can demonstrate and be helpful in aspects in daily life. Morphology is the science that studies the morphemes, small units in a language with meaning. Words are composed by these morphemes that have different types and classifications, free morphemes with their functional and lexical subtypes and bound morphemes with their derivational and inflectional subdivisions.
There are thousands of words in a language that it is difficult to say that a person completely know an extensive range of words. Almost all words in a language have different grammatical variations that express or not a different meaning.
This is the case of affixes, parts of words at the beginning or at the end that work as a type of modifiers in order to get a new word and in some cases the new word can pertain to a different grammatical - word class or not.
Affixes at the beginning are called prefixes. These elements edit the word to create a new word but the grammatical type does not change. On the other hand, the suffixes those are at the end of a word work with inflectional and derivational types that in some cases change the grammatical class of a word but it is better explained in this essay.
When thinking about morphology, the most common idea that comes up to people minds is a part of biology that studies the form of organisms. It is well known that Biology is a quite extensive field that involves a lot of branches as the already mentioned. As in Biology, the field of linguistics involves several arms; one of them is curiously morphology as well. On the other hand and regarding on linguistics, Morphology refers to the sub-discipline involved in word formation or to the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed. (Booij, 2005). In definition, these
AFFIXATION
INTRODUCTION
In a language the importance of know an extensive set of words and the respective use of these and all the rules can demonstrate and be helpful in aspects in daily life. Morphology is the science that studies the morphemes, small units in a language with meaning. Words are composed by these morphemes that have different types and classifications, free morphemes with their functional and lexical subtypes and bound morphemes with their derivational and inflectional subdivisions.
There are thousands of words in a language that it is difficult to say that a person completely know an extensive range of words. Almost all words in a language have different grammatical variations that express or not a different meaning.
This is the case of affixes, parts of words at the beginning or at the end that work as a type of modifiers in order to get a new word and in some cases the new word can pertain to a different grammatical - word class or not.
Affixes at the beginning are called prefixes. These elements edit the word to create a new word but the grammatical type does not change. On the other hand, the suffixes those are at the end of a word work with inflectional and derivational types that in some cases change the grammatical class of a word but it is better explained in this essay.
When thinking about morphology, the most common idea that comes up to people minds is a part of biology that studies the form of organisms. It is well known that Biology is a quite extensive field that involves a lot of branches as the already mentioned. As in Biology, the field of linguistics involves several arms; one of them is curiously morphology as well. On the other hand and regarding on linguistics, Morphology refers to the sub-discipline involved in word formation or to the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed. (Booij, 2005). In definition, these
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