Grammar of Words: Morphemes & Allomorphs (Lesson 1 of 7)

Learn how languages build words in this introduction to morphology. In this lesson (the first and most important in the Grammar of Words series), you will learn how to break words into their component parts. You will also see how to classify languages based on how they build words.

Key terms:
morpheme vs. allomorph
bound morpheme vs. free morpheme
null morphemes
affixation, including derivational vs. inflectional affixes
synthetic language vs. analytic language
agglutinative language vs. fusional language

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