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1 Kuiper and Allan Chapter 2.3
Kinds of Morphemes Kuiper and Allan Chapter 2.3

2 Bound and free Free morphemes are lexemes. Bound morphemes are not.
e.g. arrange Bound morphemes are not. e.g. -ment

3 Exercise Divide the following morphemes into free and bound sets:
ation, nation, pre, post, angle, ible, infra, out

4 Stem and affix A stem is the form of the base of a morphologically complex word to which an affix is attached.

5 Prefix & suffix a positional classification
Prefixes come before stems. Suffixes come after stems.

6 Exercise Separate the affixes from the stems in the following words:
trains, succeeded, lighter, predetermined, retroactive, confusions, instructional

7 Bound stems Not all stems are free. e.g. cran-berry
presume, resume, subsume


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