morph
:
a
minimal meaningful form, regardless of whether it is a morpheme
or allomorph.
morpheme
:
the smallest part of a word that has meaning or grammatical
function.
prefix
: a bound morpheme attached before a root.
realization
: the representation of one or more abstract elements (e.g., mor-
phemes) by concrete elements (e.g., sounds); e.g.,
women represents the
morphemes {woman} + {plural}.
root
: the
basic constituent of a word, to which other morphemes are at-
tached.
suffix
:
a bound morpheme attached after a root.
suppletion
: irregular inflectional forms of a word resulting from the combi-
nation of
historically different sources; e.g.,
go/went.
appendix
a
:
some
english
derivational
morphemes
(See Beers 2003: Appendixes D and E for other lists of roots and deriva-
tional affixes.)
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Morphology and Word Formation
from Adjectives
-ce
dependen-ce
-cy
excellen-cy
-dom
free-dom
-er
six-er
-hood
false-hood
-ist
social-ist
-ity
divin-ity
-ness
good-ness
-th
warm-th
Derived Verbs
from Nouns
-fy
metr-ify
-ize
Cambodian-ize
from Adjectives
-en
short-en
Derived Adjectives
from Nouns
-al
education-al (allomorphs/allographs: -ial, -ual:
presidential, habitual)
-ate
passion-ate
-en
wood-en
-ese
Peking-ese
-esque
pictur-esque
-ful
doubt-ful
-ic
algebra-ic
-less
clue-less
-ly
friend-ly
-ous
venom-ous
-y
catt-y
from Verbs
-able
unbeliev-able
-less
count-less
Delahunty and Garvey
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-ant/-ent
absorb-ent
-atory
affirm-atory
-ful
resent-ful
-ive
generat-ive
from Adjectives
-ish
green-ish
-ly
good-ly
Derived Adverbs
-ly
slow-ly
-ward(s)
in-ward(s)
-wise
length-wise
Miscellaneous
down-er
iff-y,
upp-itty
in-ness, much-ness, such-ness,
there-ness, why-ness
thus-ly
