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Morphology
I think this topic is easier than the previous topic because for me, I’ve gone through it before but in non-formal way. We learnt morphology indirectly if we are study about words, sentences, and so on that related. As we know, morphology is the study of the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are form. It is a part of the grammatical knowledge of language.
We have learnt about morphemes (free, bound, derivative and inflection), allomorphs, word structure and word formation processes. For morphemes, it is the minimal unit of grammatical analysis/function. Therefore, all words are morphemes of combination of words. The examples of morphemes are:
happy (adj.)
un + happy (adj.)
happi + ness (noun)
For me, I able to catch it up and study the topic quite well because I able to understand it. My beloved lecturer gave us plenty of examples to build our understanding. For the first day, we learnt two types of morphemes. Firstly is the free morpheme. It is a word or morpheme that can stand on its own and has grammatical function. For examples are happy, car, dog, country etc. Secondly is the bound morpheme. It is the morpheme which is unable to function as a free standing word. For examples are ‘dis-’, ‘-ly’, ‘-ness’ etc.
Make sure that you are not confused with these two morphemes. Learning about morphology was really fun for me. It gets more and more interesting.
Thank you..
