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October 04, 2005
Chapter 3 Morphological Modifications
Morphological modifications make a language more flexible to innovation, because it gives a langugage a more considerable amount of choices of words. These modifications permit people to use numerous morphological combinations so as to form new words or even to break down a word so that it can be more easily understood.
However, this can make any language all the more difficult to learn, especially if you are trying to learn a language that is not your own language. You would have to learn which words are root words, or which part of a word in not a root morpheme. Also when learning a new language it is difficult to tell which words include prefixes or suffixes. This is only possible if you know the root morpheme. Also there can be many complex or compound words in a language that can be hard for a person who doesn't know that language to understand. In order to understand another language a person has to have a lexicon of that language so that they will be able to understand the morphological modifications of the language.
Morphological modications in a persons native language are a lot easier however, because that person has a large lexicon for their own language and are able to use morphological modification. Morphological modifications in general give words a wide array of meanings, which why human language is so intricate and profoundly creative.
--Yasmin
Posted by lcisperez at October 4, 2005 08:49 PM