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Morphology - Duquesne University

Handout for Psy 598-02, summer 2001 MorphologyMorphology is the study of word formation, of the structure of observations about words and their structure:1. some words can be divided into parts which still have meaning2. many words have meaning by themselves. But some words have meaningonly when used with other words3. some of the parts into which words can be divided can stand alone aswords. But others cannot4. these word-parts that can occur only in combination must be combined inthe correct way5. languages create new words systematicallyWhat linguists infer from these observations: The meaningful parts into which words can be divided , boldest can bedivided into bold+est--are called the morphemes of the language. These areconsidered the basic units of meaning in a particular language. Words that have meaning by themselves boy, food, door are called lexicalmorphemes. Those words that function to specify the relationship between onelexical morpheme and another words like at, in, on, -ed, -s are calledgrammatical morphemes.

Webster’s dictionary defines a participle as “a word having the characteristics of both verb and adjective; especially an English verbal form that has the function of an adjective and at the same time shows such verbal features as tense and voice and capacity to take an object.”

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