LINGUSTIC FEATURES OF MORPHOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Abstract
Morphology is the systematic study of morphemes, the smallest unit of grammar. Two types of morphological operations in English are inflection and derivation. English words can be grouped into two morphological classes: Base words and derived words. The two common word building processes are two viz. suffixes, prefixes. Other means are modifying the base/stem/root, no change of form, Compounding, Conversion, Back formation, Clipping, Blending, Acronyms, Reduplication. The advanced concepts related to this are further taken up for discussion.
Key words: Language, features, Morphology, Linguistic, description, morphemes, etymology, discussion, allomorph.
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