绗竴绔?/p>
word
1.Word
--- A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and
meaning and syntactic funtion.
绗笁绔?/p>
formation 1
1.
Morpheme
--- A morpheme is the smallest functioning unit in the composition of
words.
2.
Allomorph -
-- Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to
their position in a word. Such alternative morphs are know as allomorphs.
3
. Free morphemes (Free root)
--- They are morphemes which are independent of
other morphemes.
4.
Bound Morphemes
--- They are morphemes which cannot occur as separate words.
5.
Bound root
--- A bound root is that part of the word that carries the fundamental
meaning just like a free root. Unlike a free root, it is a bound form and has to combine
with other morphemes to make words.
6.
Affixes
--- Affixes are forms that are attached to words or word elements to modify
meaning or function.
7.
Inflectional affixes
--- Affixes attaches to the end of words to indicate grammatical
relationships are known as inflectional morphemes.
8.
Derivational affixes
--- Derivational affixes are affixes added to other morphemes
to create new words.
9.
Prefixes
--- Prefixes are affixes that come before the word.
10.
Suffixes
--- suffixes are affixes that come after the word.
11
. Roo
t --- A root is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analysed
without total loss of identity.
12
. Stem
--- a stem can be defined as a form to which affixes of any kind can be
added.
绗洓绔?/p>
formation 2
1.
Affixation
--- affixation is generally defined as the formation of words by adding
word-forming or derivational affixes to stems.
2.
Prefixation
--- is the formation of new words by adding prefixes to stems.
Suffixation
--- is the formation of new words by adding suffixes to stems.
3.
Compounding
锛?/p>
Compositon
锛?/p>
-- is the formation of new words by joining two or
more stems.
4.
Conversion
-- is the formation of new words by converting words of one class to
another class.
5.
Blending
-- is the formation of new words by combined by parts of two words or a
word plus a plus a part of another word.
6.
Clipping
- is the formation of new words by shortening a longer word by cutting a
part off the original and using what remain instead.