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Kinds of Morphemes

Kinds of Morphemes. Kuiper and Allan Chapter 2.3. Bound and free. Free morphemes are lexemes. e.g. arrange Bound morphemes are not. e.g. - ment. Exercise. Divide the following morphemes into free and bound sets: ation, nation, pre, post, angle, ible, infra, out. Stem and affix.

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Kinds of Morphemes

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  1. Kinds of Morphemes Kuiper and Allan Chapter 2.3

  2. Bound and free • Free morphemes are lexemes. • e.g. arrange • Bound morphemes are not. • e.g. -ment

  3. Exercise • Divide the following morphemes into free and bound sets: • ation, nation, pre, post, angle, ible, infra, out

  4. Stem and affix • A stem is the form of the base of a morphologically complex word to which an affix is attached.

  5. Prefix & suffix • a positional classification • Prefixes come before stems. • Suffixes come after stems.

  6. Exercise • Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words: • trains, succeeded, lighter, predetermined, retroactive, confusions, instructional

  7. Bound stems • Not all stems are free. • e.g. cran-berry • presume, resume, subsume

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