Morphodex

Welcome to the Linguistics Girl Morphodex! The Morphodex (<Morph + o + Dex>) is a collection in progress of English morphemes. Morphology is the study of the structure of morphemes in a language, or the study of words and parts of words. Consisting of one or more graphemes, a morpheme is the smallest meaningful linguistic unit of a language. A morpheme is a word part. Bases, prefixes, suffixes, interfixes, and connecting vowels are morphemes. A base is a morpheme that forms the foundation of a word. A base holds the key to the meaning of the word that contains the base. A free base is a morpheme that can stand on its own as a word. A bound base must attach to another morpheme to create a word. An affix is a bound morpheme that attaches to another morpheme to form either a new word or a new form of the same word. A prefix is a bound morpheme that attaches to the beginning of another morpheme. A suffix is a bound morpheme that attaches to the end of another morpheme. An interfix is a bound morpheme that connects two morphemes. A type of interfix, a connecting vowel is a <e>,<i>, <o>, or <u> that joins together two morphemes.