M3: More on Morphology

Morphology impacts words in various ways –

By adding a prefix or a suffix we can change the meaning of a word or the verb tense, etc.  

• change verb tense (kick/kicks/kicked)
• change degree (fast/faster/fastest)
• change the lexical category of a word (if it is a verb, noun, adjective, etc) (teach/teacher)
• creating new words (tie/untie, test/pretest)
• compounding (sunroof)

(sun + roof = sunroof)  these are two free morphemes bound together in their unaltered original forms to make a new word

• Shortening (fed from federal)
• Blending (smog)

(sm oke + f og = smog) these are two free morphemes smoke + fog that are  blended together to make a new word, smog

• Acronyms (BFF)

Here is a video to explain morphology a little more and how you can use it in the classroom (and lesson plans!)  

And here is a video to make you laugh.

Not all of the examples in this Mitú video are morphology... but a lot of them are.  For example, "jangueando"... that is a codemix and a morphological change. And if you don't speak Spanish you may not get all of the jokes...or you may!?