Inglise leksikoloogia
Morphemes are the smallest lexical units (can not divide). They make up words. Morphemes have a
certain meaning. (nt, pre preplain, preview; less waterless; hood brotherhood). Some morphemes
have diff sounds(nt, please, pleasure, pleasant). They are variants of the same morpheme or allomorph.
Types: segmentable those we can divide into morphemes (nt, hero- ic; happy ness). Non-
segmentable- cannot divide any further (nt, luck, hand, smile).
Types of morphemic segmantability:
a)complete segm occurs in words with transparent structure (läbinähtav), (nt, south- ern; mis-manage)
b)conditional segm characterizes words whose division is doubtful for semantic resons(nt, recieve,
decieve). They are called pseudomorphemes (with no meaning).
c)defective- typical of words that have a morpheme which never occur in other words. Unique
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