The Word

of Words

internal structure
is susceptible to a certain grammatical employment
has lexical-grammatical

structure
morphological structure

internal structure of the word:
meaning

different grammatical forms constituting their grammatical paradigm

Worker Easy To

unit taken to denote the smallest independent, indivisible unit of

Left-hand combine-ability

a cold day

Right-hand combine-ability

a cold day

of the possible meanings of a given word is used

the meaning
of words
form the base for
synonymy and
antonymy

suffix «-eme» denotes the smallest unit or the minimal distinctive

into:
monomorphemic words – consist of only one morpheme: cat, get,

words

according to their position in words

according to the

root-morpheme

the primary component of a word, its basic part

an affixal morpheme

a linguistic element added to a word or root to produce a derived or inflected form

blackness

cups, trees
stands, sits, reads
derivational morphemes
(affixes)

possess lexical-grammatical

un-usual
re-read
mis-pronounce
un-well
suffixes
follow

bound morphemes
-er (worker), dis- (disadvantage)
semi-free(semi-bound morphemes)
fearless and less;

of a morpheme occurring in a specific environment

one or more

illegal, illiterate
«im-» before bilabials: immoral, impossible
«ir-» before r: irresponsible, irregular

The

morphemes is possible
agree-ment, fear-less
2. non-segmentable words
words which do not allow

of, opposite
unemployment (n.), unable (adj.), untie (v.)

conditional
retain, contain,

or seldom recur in other words. For example, in the

the field».

2. «The sheep are in the field».

the

cut the meat into small pieces.
In the verb «cut» of

are zero morphemes, which contain the grammatical meaning of nominative