2. In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis
and description, in a language, of the structure of
morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words,
affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied
context. (words in a lexicon are the subject matter of
lexicology). Morphological typology represents a
method for classifying languages according to the
ways by which morphemes are used in a language —
from the analytic that use only isolated morphemes,
through the agglutinative ("stuck-together") and
fusional languages that use bound morphemes
(affixes), up to the polysynthetic, which compress lots
of separate morphemes into single words.

3.  A morpheme is a short segment of de language with
meaning
 A morpheme is a meningful unit of meaning.
 A morpheme meets three criteria:
1. It a word, or a part of de word that has meaning.
2. It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts
with out violation of its meaning or with out
meaninggless remainders.
3. It appears in different environment with relatively
same maening.

4. PEN
 It is a word: we can find in the dictionary and it has a
denotative meaning. It is an instrument for writing
with ink.
 We can not divide it into smaller meaningful parts.
Ex. /pe/n/or/p/en/. In this word /en/ does not have
meaning, in others can recur as part of a word with
meaning. It is not possible to violate its meaning.
 It recurs in other environment with a stable meaning.
 Examples: pencil-penmanship-pen name.

5. Morphemes are of two kinds: free and bound
 A free morphemes: A free morphemes is one that
can be expressed alone with meaning. It often
carries lexical meaning.(the kind of meaning given in
a dictionary). It also has the major meaning in the
words.eg.build.
 Bound morpheme: it is one that cannot be
expressed alonewith meaning.it cannot appear alone
and must be attached to another morpheme.

6.  Buil= free morpheme
rebuild
bound m. Free m.
builder
Free m. Bound m.

7.  A base: is the part of the word that has the
principal meaning. Most of the bases in English
are free morphemes, but some are bound
morphemes. A free form to which other
morphemes maybe be attached is called a base
or root.

8.  Lovable
 In spelling: lov=bound morpheme (bound base)
 Able= bound morpheme. In phonemic transcription:
 /l^vebl/: /l^v/= base (free morpheme) /ebl/= affixe
 Replay
 Re= affix /rl/ bound morpheme
 Play= base /pley/ free morpheme

9. Affixes: An affix is a bound morpheme that
occurs before, within or after a base.
There are three kinds of affixes.
Prefixes
Suffixes
Infixes
Prefixes: These morphemes occur before that
base

10. Import
prefix base
Examples with common prefixes:
PREFIX MEANING EXAMPLES
a-am- With out Asexual- amoral
a- To, toward Aloud- akin
ab-,abs Off, away Absence- abnormal

11.  One of the characteristics of English words is
that any modifications to them occur at the
beginning or the end; mix can have
something added at the beginning re-mix or at
the end, mixes, mixer, but never in the
middle, called infixes. This distinguishes
English from many other languages like
Inuktitit which thrive on adding things to words
and end up with what to an English eye
appears gigantic words.

12. Here is a list of some of the words that were found
by James McMillan
 awfully: beawfullyware
 bally: absoballylutely
 bleeding: absobleedinglutely
 bleep: fivebleepmile
 blessed: absoblessedlutely
 bloody:
railbloodyway, whatsobloodyever, kangabloodyroo
 blooming: absobloominglutely
 damn: abdamnsurd, Piccadamnlilly
 fucking: somefuckingplace, selfdefuckingfence

13.  They are bound morphemes that occur after the
base. The limit is three or four and they have a
special order: first the derivational and after the
inflectional.
 Example:
 teachers= teach=base-er=suffix-s=suffix
 Moralizers= mor=base-al=suffix-ize=suffix-er=suffix-
s= suffix

14.  inflectional (grammatical): for example,
changing singular to plural (dog > dogs), or
changing present tense to past tense (walk >
walked). In this case, the basic meaning of
the word does not change.
 derivational (the new word has a new
meaning, "derived" from the original word): for
example, teach > teacher or care > careful

15. suffix grammatical example example
change original word suffixed word
s plural dog dogs
-en plural (irregular) ox oxen
3rd person
-s like he likes
singular present
past tense he worked
-ed work
past participle he has worked
past participle
-en eat he has eaten
(irregular)
continuous/progre
-ing sleep he is sleeping
ssive
-er comparative big bigger