Morphology Quiz

Morphology in linguistics is the study of word construction, i.e., the arrangement and relationships of the smallest meaningful units in a language (morphemes).

Free morphemes are the minimal units of words that can stand alone as single, independent words without any morphemes attached to them. They can further be subcategorized into content words and function words.

Free morphemes can stand alone as independent words, while bound morphemes can only occur attached to other morphemes, either before or after them, to form new words or to inflect existing ones.

<p>Bound morphemes only appear in combination with other morphemes, they cannot stand alone and are thus necessarily attached to another form, while free roots are stand-alone words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allomorphs are different forms of a morpheme that have a consistent meaning, but appear in different forms depending on the environment where they occur.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Root morpheme is always the main morpheme that carries the main meaning of a word and cannot be analysed any further. The stem of a word, on the other hand, is found by removing all the inflectional suffixes, but leaving any derivational affixes in place.</p> Signup and view all the answers