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Understanding Morphemes: Open vs. Closed Class Words in Linguistics

This resource explores the distinction between open and closed class words in the context of morphemes. It emphasizes the importance of identifying morphemes correctly, noting that answers should focus on individual morphemes rather than entire words. The material also covers concepts like stems, core meanings, and how alterations in morphemes can change word meanings. Students will engage with examples and exercises that reinforce their understanding of these linguistic principles. This guide is ideal for linguistics and VCE English students.

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Understanding Morphemes: Open vs. Closed Class Words in Linguistics

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  1. English Language Common errors

  2. OPEN CLASS WORDS vs CLOSED CLASS WORDS

  3. WHEN ASKED TO IDENTIFY A morpheme DON’T ANSWER WITH A WORD THAT CONTAINS MULTIPLE morphemes WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THE morpheme IN QUESTION!!!

  4. “killing” is not an answer. Why?

  5. “kill –” or “-ing”

  6. DON’T guess UNLESS IT IS AN EDUCATED guess

  7. A morpheme is… the smallest unit of meaning -ive pre - script in- -ion de- con-

  8. The stem of a word is… a morpheme that can stand alone – it represents the core meaning of the word

  9. IF THIS IS TRUE, WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING stems MEAN?

  10. cyclo

  11. paedia

  12. encyclopaed

  13. gether

  14. dang

  15. anger So how does adding a “D” change its meaning to DANGER?

  16. an So how does it get from AN to DANGER?

  17. get So how does it get from get to together?

  18. to get her seriosusly?

  19. MY FAVOURITES: vestigation volvement

  20. HONOURABLE MENTIONS: ets as in bullets h e as in hail as in spoke

  21. LINGUISTICS or VCE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is more like a maths or a science than a humanities

  22. Morphology is like algebra: killing = x + y x = kill y = -ing killing = kill + ing

  23. Any questions?

  24. This sheet should be accompanied by a class list or copy of an attendance record

  25. This sheet should be accompan(y)-ied by a class list or copy of an attend-ance record

  26. There are two horses that have travelled long distances and are touted as superstars

  27. There are two horse-s that have travel(l)-ed long distance-s and are tout-ed as super-star-s

  28. Players are asking for a far greater slice of AFL revenue next season

  29. Player-s are ask-ing for a far great-er slice of AFL revenue next season

  30. Massive inequalities in spending have been exposed on a new website

  31. Mass-ivein-equal-it(y)-iesin spend-ing have be-enexpose-edon a new web-site

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