Classification of morphemes
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Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language and can be classified into two main categories: lexical morphemes and grammatical morphemes. Lexical morphemes convey meaning on their own like nouns and verbs, while grammatical morphemes indicate grammatical relationships and cannot stand alone, such as articles and prepositions. Morphemes can also be classified as free or bound depending on whether they can occur independently or must be attached to other morphemes.
Classification of morphemes
- 1. Classification of Morphemes Prepared by Ayesha Aslam Farwa Khalid
- 2. Classification of Morphemes Ronald W. Langacker in his book Language and its Structure has divided morphemes into two classes: lexical morphemes grammatical morphemes
- 3. Lexical morphemes are like boy write paper pen
- 4. Grammatical morphemes are like some with a the an
- 5. Morphemes Morphemes are the minimum grammatical forms of a language. Some of them can occur alone, others cannot. Forms which do not occur alone are bound morphemes, and those which occur alone are free morphemes. The whole classification can be represented in the following manner Slide 6
- 6. Morpheme Free Bound Prefix Infix Suffix Derivational Inflectional Bound bases Class- maintaining Class-changing