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Classification of words
(closed classes)
APPLE
REREADING
RE + READ + ING
renewable rewritable
re + new + able re + writ(e) + able
MORPHOLOGY
= the study of how words are built
= "word grammar"
can
redder tiger salamandercharacter hammer
opener
ALLOMORPHS:
Classification of Morphemes
symbolic fusion: tooth -> teeth, run -> ran, take ->
took, use (the noun) -> use (the verb)
2. Types of affixes:
FREE BOUND
most roots in English most prefixes and suffixes
but: adept, inept (BOUND ROOT) ism (free suffix) ex, pro, con (free prefixes)
clipping, or clipped word: grad, prof, dorm, Liz, Flo, Ed, Al.
bad -> worse, good -> better, go -> went, is -> was, am, is,
are