NOTESFORTHE3225SECTION111/MORPHOLOGY
 
 
**Grammatical Bound *
Inflectional morphemes
Free
Conjuctions, prepositions, pronouns, articles

 
**Lexical Boumd*
Un, re, retro. ize
Free
wise, able, like (Adjectives, Adverbs, Nouns, Verbs)
*BOUND LEXICAL OR GRAMMATICAL  MORPHEMES CAN BE INFIXES SUFFIXES OR
  PREFIXES (ALL OF THEM ARE CALLED AFFIXES)
**Grammatical morphemes are a closed category (difficult to add new ones.)
   The lexical morphemes is open (you can add new adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs)
    LEXICAL MORPHEMES FUNCTION AS ROOTS (STEMS)
 

                                                              Word formation
 
Inflectional .  Changes the meaning not the category it uses inflexional morphemes

Example:girl girl-s
 
 

 

 Derivational.  Changes the category and/ or meaning using derivational morphems (morphemes that are not inflectional)

Example: believe + able= believable (change of category)
Un+believe+able=unbelievable (change of meaning using derivational morpheme-Un