1. Chapter 1 Dividing Words Up Morphology Lane 333

2. Introduction There are words in English that can’t be divided into parts, Such as ‘tea, steal, small, fast, in, me, and …’ But, lots of words consist of smaller parts (they have structure)

3. Morpheme A morpheme: is the smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function (re-value, strong-ly, cat-s) Free morphemes: the parts of the word that can stand by themselves, such as ‘book- shelf’ Bound morphemes: the parts of the word that can’t stand alone & need the support of other morphemes, such as in ‘quick-ly’

4. Morphemes Typical morphemes: 1. are meaningful 2. recur in a language's vocabulary 3. may recur in regular interchanges Some words may consist only of bound morphemes (presumption, exclude)

5. Morphological Segmentation Segmentation: is dividing words up into morphemes Morphology: the academic study of word structure

6. Exercises 1.1 Divide these words up into their constituent parts (morphemes) thickestbookshelfthinkableoutbidnowherelegless quicklyroomsouterpreviewthinkingunsafe

7. Exercises 1.5 Compare the following pairs of words, & decide which consist of one morpheme & which of two Baked Printer Killing Harden Reheat Preview Sticker Undue Hardest Unstable Cafeteria Precinct Flicker Under Harvest Constable Wisteria Naked winter Shilling garden Retreat

8. Exercises 1.6 which of the following English words are one- morpheme words? 1.7 What might the morpheme –ee, if that’s what it is, mean? anorakshove l flowercricketplaceboartichoke spiderlittlebootybooteewarmthcrackle