By Morphemes, Nouns

But in the following definition even s is considered a meaningful unit. What do you say about it?I say the same as GG did. The s is considered meaningful at the end of a noun. Its meaning is "more than one". Another very short morpheme is n. At the end of some irregular verbs it makes the...

Hi Verbal nouns have a verb as a base morpheme. If the attached derivational affixes (morphemes like -ness, pre, etc.) change their syntactic cathegory and the new lexeme is a noun, then you have a verbal noun. advance + -ment If the rules of grammar require a definite article to precede...

1. Oddly enough, he went home early. 2. Despite there not being many people at the party, we insisted on staying. I try to find all the heads in the two sentences. (Heads will roll.) 1. Let me think, it is phrases that have heads, is it not? How many phrases are there in the first...

Am I correct in saying gerund is a verbal noun? Going home I met Joe. Which is the gerund here? 'Going home'? Yes, I think. What is 'going'? A non-finite verb in the gerund phrase the direct object of which is 'a house', nicht war? Am I correct in saying participle is an adjectival phrase?...

That is not the point of the example. You seem to be reading far too much into my words. To tell you the truth, I have great difficulty figuring out what your point is. Mainly because you keep taunting other people but refuse to take a position yourself. In my experience with this word,...

Forbes wrote: A word about classifiers. I looked up "classifier" in my dictionary (a very good one) and it does not define it! I turned to dictionary.com and found the following definition: A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts, such as counting, that...

A word about classifiers. I looked up "classifier" in my dictionary (a very good one) and it does not define it! I turned to dictionary.com and found the following definition: A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts, such as counting, that indicates the semantic class...

Soulwhisper wrote: first of all....hi am a new member here from saudi arabia...and am taking morphology...and i have few questions need answers . first what can we consider the word..writings..in the sentence HIS WRITINGS WAS PUBLISHED IN ...is it right to say its containing lexical...

hello friends.i have to do a task homework..would you please help me? thank you consider what problems of analysis ,or recognition,or of relating them to other forms of same word a learner might have with them.for example: word: redemption morphemes:redeem+noun suffix -tion ...

Thanks... I guess that's the way it should be. The problem with dis-illusion is that "disillusion" is a verb and not a noun. 'Illusion' is of course a noun, but there's no way a verb can be created by adding dis- to a noun... This is what has me confused - especially because it feels very wrong...