Special education the republic of uzbekistan jizzakh branch of the national university of uzbekistan named adter mirzo ulugbek

CONCLUSION

In the present chapter we discovered another core area of linguistics: morphol- ogy. Morphology deals with the internal structure of words and ways of creating new words. We have seen that words can be divided into smallest meaningful units called morphemes. Morphemes differ in a variety of characteristics, such as their ability to occur independently (free vs. bound), their function (inflectional vs. derivational), their position with respect to each other (root, base, affix), and their position with respect to the base (prefixes, suffixes and infixes). Using the inventory of different morpheme types, we are able to do a thorough morpho- logical analysis of various complex words of a language. It was also shown that morphemes are abstract units that, depending on the context, acquire concrete shapes, called allomorphs. The distribution of allomorphs can be conditioned by a number of different factors, phonological, morphological and lexical. Finally, it was demonstrated that a number of different strategies can be used for creating new words, such as affixation, compounding, conversion and different shorten- ing processes.
In the next chapter, we will move on to a higher level in the linguistic hierar- chy and investigate how words are organised into sentences.