Hello mollymontana-ga,
"Un" in the word "understanding" is not a morpheme; therefore, it is
none of these things.
"Un" is normally a derivational affix: a bound morpheme, affixed to a
stem, that creates a new lexeme (a new word, with a different
meaning). Discussion of the derivational affix and the other three
morphological terms you have mentioned is found in:
"Morphology" [pages 1-3]
Tom Mylne
http://www.mylne.net/documents/Morphology.pdf
However, "derstanding" is not a lexeme to begin with; "der" is not a
morpheme, and "derstanding" does not have a meaning. In the verb
"understand", "stand" is the stem and "under" is the affix
(specifically, a prefix). (In this case, both of these morphemes --
"under" and "stand" -- are meaningless with respect to the verb
"understand". But the main point is that "un" -- as opposed to
"under" -- is not a morpheme with respect to the word
"understanding".)
"LG372 Morphology - Chapter Three - The Morpheme Concept"
Andrew Spencer
Department of Language and Linguistics
University of Essex
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~spena/372/372_ch3.pdf
I hope that this information is helpful.
- justaskscott-ga
Search terms used on Google:
un "bound root" "free morpheme" "inflectional affix" "derivational
affix"
under stand understand morpheme lexeme |
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