A WORD AND ITS PARTS: ROOTS, AFFIXES AND THEIR SHAPES.

A. TAKING WORDS APART

Taking words apart is morphology process that classifying word into smaller parts
of word. Those part are called morphemes. The area of grammar concerned with the
structure of words and with relationships between words involving the morpheme that
compose them technically called morphology and morphemes can be thought of as the
minimal units of morphology. Charles F. Hockett, an American linguist definied the
morphemes as the smallest individually meaningfull elements in utterances of language
(Parera, 2007:15)
We can predict some meaning of complex word by refer to some condition as
listed below:
 Morphemes must be identifiable from one word to another.
 Morphemes must contribute in some way to the meaning of the whole world.

Example :

1. Portable : port (carry) + able (capable of). Something that is portable is capable of
being carried.
2. Deport : de (away, from reverse of) + port (carry). To deport someone is to carry
(move him/her away from place.
3. Renew : re (again) + new. To renew something is to make it new again.