Morphemes as signs • Many words are simple, but sometimes they are complex and composed of identifiable smaller pieces. • farmer is a complex word farm+er, because farmer is part of the systematic set: work worker eat eater drive driver farm farmer • where -er is a morpheme, i.e. a sign, that means “one who Vs” • A words like dormer (a structure that projects out of a house …

Morphology – Word Formation and Word Structure ... C. Words are made up of roots and one or more affixes. D. Word structure examples: Lisa Pearl LING200, Summer Session I, 2004 ... For each word below, state 1) how many morphemes it has, 2) whether it is simple or complex, 3) what the root is, 4) what category the root is, 5) what the bound ...

I Another feature of morphology is its combinatoric irregularity. I For example, the su x -ify can be used to form a verb from a noun or adjective that has the meaning \make (into an) X" where X is the noun or adjective the su x gets added to: I icon ) icon-ify I simple ) simpl-ify I But there are lots of nouns and adjectives that either do not

Morphology and Word Formation clearly related phonemic forms /@z/ or / z/, /z/, and /s/. These three have in common not only their meaning, but also the fact that each contains an alveolar fricative phoneme, either /s/ or /z/. The three forms are in comple-mentary distribution, because each occurs where the others cannot, and it is

Morphology 101 71 VOLUME 23 THE LANGUAGE AND LITERACY SPECTRUM we add s to girl and make girls, we have added the s to make our word plural. In this case, s is a morpheme. However, it is clearly not a word. Another example is write, which is a morpheme and a word. We cannot break it down further.