Objectives

By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:

  • Describe the concept of morphology and its role in word formation.

  • Identify basic stems and affixes in given words.

  • Classify morphemes into free, bound, derivational, and inflectional types.

  • Explain the processes by which new words are formed.

  • Distinguish between morphological processes.

  • Construct new words using various morphological rules.

  • Analyze complex words to break them down into morphemes.