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Morphology » Focus & Content

Morphology


Focus & Content

1. Morphology

Morpheme
Types of Morphemes
Classes of Morphemes
Morphological Processes: Derivation versus Inflection
Derivational Affixes
Inflectional Affixes

Exercises


2. Special Realizations of Morphemes

Portmanteau Word
Zero-Morpheme
Allomorph
Pseudo-Morphemes
Suppletion

Exercises


3. Word-Formation

Compound
Back-Formation
Invention
Conversion or Functional Shift
Shortenings
Clipping
Acronym
Initialism
Blend

Exercises


4. Language Types

Language Types -- an Introduction
Analytic versus Synthetic
Agglutinating, Incorporating and Infixing Languages


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