What Is English Morphology ?

CTEL 501: ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY
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What is morphology?
• In Linguistics, morphology is the study of words, their
formational processes, their relationships with other words
in the lame language as well as an analysis of the structure
and function of each of the individual parts of a word.
Stem, Root words, Affixation
Morphology also looks at contexts like parts of speech,
intonation and stress, and analyses how each of these
contextual elements change the meaning of the word.

Understanding content words and
function words
Content words:
• Nouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives
• Adverbs.
Function words:
• Pronouns
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Articles

Morphemes
• The shortest, most elemental unit of grammatical form.
• The word ‘morpheme’ is derived from the Greek word
‘morphe’ which means ‘form’.
• Morphemes are connected to form a word.
• Single morphemes can either exist as independent
meaningful segments or as an additional attachment.
• Morphology – morph + ology