Forms that cannot normally satand
alone and are typically attached to
another form
Affixes
Example
Undressed
Derivational Morphemes
Is a linguistic term that refers to an affix
added to a base or root word to create a
new word with a different meaning or
grammatical category.
Example
friend - friendship
Inflectional Morphemes
An inflectional morpheme is a
linguistic term that refers to an affix
added to a word to indicate
grammatical information or to
express various grammatical
relationships within a sentence.
Example
walk - walking
Morphological
Description
An inflectional morpheme never
changes the grammatical category of a
word
Morphs and
Allomorphs
Morphs
Is the smallest grammatical unit
in a language that carries
meaning or serves a grammatical
function.
Allomorphs
Is a variant of a
morpheme that occur
in different
phonological contexts.
Example
Morpheme -s, can
have different
allomorphs, -z, -ɪz, -s
Other Languages
We can identify morphemes in other
languages and patterns that show the
basic types of morphemes to know
how different forms are used in other
languages to perform logical features
and processes.