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October 01, 2005
Morphology
I think that having morphological modifications in a language makes the language much more flexible and open to new words. Since we are able to create different words from one root word by adding morphemes to it, we are able to create more new words than a language that didn’t have morphemes. I know sometimes I make up my own words by using a root word and a morpheme that doesn’t usually go with the root word. If I can’t find a word that I want, sometimes I can add “ish” or another morpheme to a word to create my own word. Morphemes give our language more variety, but I don’t think they make it easier to learn, because if I wasn’t fluent in English, I might get confused when someone added on to a root word and I wasn’t familiar with what the addition meant. There are so many prefixes and suffixes that I think it would be hard for someone who isn’t a native speaker of English to memorize them all.
Posted by lcismardin at October 1, 2005 07:49 PM