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English morphology

Morphology is the study of structure of the word, their relationship to other words in the same language, its components, functions and word formation. When we study morphology of the English Language, we studying the word’s root, prefixes, suffixes, bases, inflections and phonemes. English has a colourful history and has Latin, Greek and Sanskrit roots in many of the modern words we use today. Studying morphology is a good starting point to take language apart and learn strategies in order to increase lexical capacity.

Overview

Introduction to Morphology

The notion of “word”

What is a word?

Identifying the pieces of words

Derivational morphology

The derivation vs. inflection

Roots and affixes

​Structure and meaning in words

Inflectional morphology

Inflectional morphology

Allomorphy

Lexical semantics

Content meanings vs. grammatical meanings

Entailments

The Acquisition of Morphology

Learning biases

Overgeneralization and undergeneralization

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Morphology and Typology

Traditional morphological taxonomies

The suffixing preference

​Formal and functional explanations

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