Question

5. For each of the questions below provide an answer. Your answer should be well- written, and you need to provide examples in each of the questions to get full credit. (10 points) a. W hat is a morphem Please provide examples of a bound and a free morpheme. (2 pont e and what the difference between a bound and a free morpheme? t least three examples. (2.5 points) b. What is a derivational affix? Provide a

Answer 1

A) Definition

A "morpheme" is a short section of language that meets three fundamental criteria:

1. It is a word or a piece of a word that has meaning.

2. It can't be partitioned into littler important portions without changing its significance or leaving a unimportant leftover portion.

3. It has generally a similar stable significance in various verbal conditions.

There are two sorts of free morphemes and bound morphemes. "Free morphemes" can remain solitary with a particular importance, for instance, eat, date, feeble. "Bound morphemes" can't remain solitary with significance. Morphemes are contained two separate classes called (a) bases (or roots) and (b) affixes

A "base," or "root" is a morpheme in a word that gives the word its standard importance. A case of a "free base" morpheme is women in the word womanly. A case of a "bound base" morpheme is - sent in the word dissent

Affixes

An "affix" is a bound morpheme that happens previously or after a base. An affix that precedes a base is known as a "prefix." Some examples of prefixes are risk , pre-, un-, and dis-, as in the following words:

predate
Prehistoric
An affix which comes after base is called suffix for example
-ly ,-ism, -ness , -er
Happily
Gardener
Happiness

B)

Derivational Affixes

An affix can be either derivational or inflectional. "Derivational appends" serve to adjust the importance of a word by expanding on a base. In the examples of words with prefixes and postfixes over, the addition of the prefix un-to healthy modifies the meaning of healthy . The subsequent word signifies "not healthy " The expansion of the suffix - er to Gardener changes the significance of garden, which is where plants, blooms, and so on., develop, to a word that alludes to 'a man who tends a garden.' It ought to be noticed that all prefixes in English are derivational. Suffix might be either derivational or inflectional.