Morphology

UNIVERSIDAD TCNICA DEL NORTE FECYT

NAME: LUIS ALEXANDER BENAVIDES TULCN. CLASS: 4th English class A. DATE: 05/06/2012. THEME: Affixes according to the position. Prefixes and suffixes.

All the examples have involved adding morphemes to the ends of other morphemes. Morphemes in this position are known as suffixes. Morphemes could, of course, be added to the front of other morphemes, in which case they are known as prefixes. Examples of this are re- as in re-print and re-do, pre- as in pre-ordain and pre-pay, and dis- as in dis-allow and dis-agree. It is also possible to alter the meaning of morphemes by the combined use of both prefixes and suffixes. Consider how the morpheme organize can be altered. The classification of morpheme puts them into two classes: bases and affixes. A base morpheme is the part of a word that has the principal meaning. A base is a morpheme which is the core of the word that contains the words basic meaning. Prefixes and suffixes Prefixes are bound morphemes added to the beginning of a base/stem to create new words from pre-existing ones. Their meanings are usually those of English prepositions and adverbs, which generally make them more familiar to us. We classify all prefixes as derivational morphemes.

The morpheme in each of the words has the same sound, but its meaning varies slightly. The ex-, morpheme in exait does not have the same meaning as the ex-morpheme in exterminate. The former means (to move upward). While the latter means (to do something). The context is important, because its meaning varies slightly whit the base morpheme to which it is attached.