Inflectional Morphology

Prepared by:
Ivana Rissa G.



Burda

-the smallest units of speech
capable of conveying meaning

specimen:

free morphemes

dog and bark

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-tiny markers that can be join oned to
some other morphemes to add or change
their meaning

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-tiny markers that can be added to
another morphemes to add or change
their meaning

bound morphemes
must be connected to
a free morpheme

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example:
have one morpheme

dog
dogs

barked
bark

plural form -s

past extend -ed

have two morphemes

Inflectional Morphology
the change

- they neer change the syntactic
category of the word or morphemes
to which they are attach features
grammatical to

to denote
happens in words

inflectional morphemes
tense

-ed
number, -ing , -en

gender

ess
third -person singular

comparisons

-er, -est
possession
-s, -es
-s
-s

The Eight English Inflectional Morphemes

-s

third person singular present
marker

-ed

past tense marker

-ing

progressive marker

-en
-s
-s
-er
-est

past participle marker
plural marker
possessive marker
proportional marker
superlative marker

Johns two sisters are very different.
Johns two sisters are really different.

wiz likes to have fun and is evermore
One likes to have fun and is always laughing.
laughing.
The other liked to to read a barbarian and has
The other liked read as as a child and
has always things seriously.
always taken taken things seriously.
Oneis the loudest person in the house and
is the loudest person in the house
One
and the other is quieter than a mouse.
the other is quieter than a mouse.

Inflectional Morphemes

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