Structural features of lexical units related to Paralympics in English
Keywords:
lexigraphy, lexical unit, Paralympic Games, Olympic Games, morphology, word, morpheme, free and bound morphemes,root words, compound words.Abstract
This article is mainly written about the structural features of words that
related to the Paralympic Games. Firstly, it is described what the lexical unit is, before
skipping to the Paralympics because it is helpful to define and understand better what the
Paralympic lexical units are. Then, there is some information about Paralympic Games which
are held for the athletes who have disabilities every two years. Morphology is the branch of
linguistics that studies the structure of words. A word is the smallest unit of morphology.
Words can be root words, words with suffixes or prefixes and the compound words. After
that, when it comes to separating the lexical units of Paralympics into groups, it is used the
table which will show them in three different categories.
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