Syntactic structure, morphology, free morphemes and bound morphemes

Simberley Vressick-Chilborn; Mohammad Ozinan Rachman

doi:10.21744/mami.v1n2.8

Authors

Simberley Vressick-Chilborn
vressick-chilborn@uts.edu.au
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Mohammad Ozinan Rachman London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom

Keywords:

syntactic structure, morphology, free morphemes, bound morphemes, English, root, words form

Abstract

This study aims to explain the meaning of syntax, syntactic structure in English. The root is a term to refer to a word form that cannot be further divided, cannot be analyzed again, there is no additional affix. This root is always there, although in the form of various modifications of a lexeme. For example; walk, which is a root, can appear in the form of words, such as walks, walking, walked. Drink, is a root, can appear in the form of words, such as drinks, drinking, drunk.

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