Inflectional Morphology Essay

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Prepared by: Ivana Rissa G. Burda -the smallest units of speech capable of conveying meaning example: free morphemes “dog” and “bark” click -tiny markers that can be added to another morphemes to add or change their meaning click -tiny markers that can be added to another morphemes to add or change their meaning bound morphemes must be connected to a free morpheme click example: have one morpheme “dog dogs ” “barked bark” plural “-s” past tense “-ed” have two morphemes Inflectional Morphology the change - they never change the syntactic category of the word or morphemes to which they are attached features grammatical to to denote happens in words inflectional morphemes tense -ed number, -ing , -en gender ess third -person singular comparisons -er, -est possession -s, -es -s -’s The Eight English Inflectional Morphemes -s third person singular present marker -ed past tense marker -ing progressive marker -en -s -'s -er -est past participle marker plural marker possessive marker comparative marker superlative marker John’s two sisters are really different. John’s two sisters are really different. One likes to have fun and is always One likes to have fun and is always laughing. laughing. The other liked to to read a child and has The other liked read as as a child and has always things seriously. always taken taken things seriously. Oneis the loudest person in the house and is the loudest person in the house One and the other is quieter than a mouse. the other is quieter than a mouse. Inflectional Morphemes a report on  http://emedia.leeward.  www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ hawaii.edu/hurley/Ling1 ~raha/306a.../EnglishI 02web/mod4nflectionalAffixes.pdf 1_morphology/4mod4.1 due credits to:

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