MORPHOLOGY

Definition
Morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning.
Morphology is the study of morphemes of a language.

There are 2 kind of morphology:
1.free morpheme
a morpheme that can stand alone
example:happy,beauty and hope

2.Bound morpheme
can not stand alone
or we can call affixes.so,must be attached to the word
Example:in,un,ful,ly,dis ect

There are 2 types of bound morpheme:
1.Derivational morphem
is a morpheme
give an affix used to change form and meaning form with a change in part of speech

There are 2 Derivational morphology:
1.Derivational prefixes(in the beginning word)
example:
legal-illegal
responsible-irresponsible

2.Derivational Suffix(in the end word)
Example:good-goodness
manage-management

2.Inflectional morphology
morpheme
is a morpheme give an affix used to change form but no change part of speech
example:learn-learned
book-books

Allomorphs
the term “allomorph” refers to a variant of a morpheme.such variance occurs due to the phonological conditioning of the surrounding sounds.

Example:
cat-cats/kaets/
dog-dogs/dogz/
horse-horses/hƆ:sǝz/

Talk-talked/tƆ:kt
juggle-junggled/dƷɅgld
end-ended/endəd

Zero allomorph
when a morpheme changes status from one type of morpheme to another without any addition or subtraction of any of its parts
example:sheep(singel)=sheep(plural)