The words forbid, forget, forgive, forgo , and forswear are all complex words. I think this because each word can be broken down into two morphemes and can stand on their own. For example forget can be broken down to for- get and for- give . These are two separate constituents that have meanings that can stand alone. Simplex words can not be broken down into two or more morphemes, which shows evidence as to why I think the following words forbid, forget, forgive, forgo , and forswear are all complex words. 

With simplex words things can not be broken down further into smaller meaningful parts. While with complex the word can be broken down into smaller parts. So a simplex word only has one constituent and a complex has more than one. For the words provided it can go either way as the five words have the unit word ‘for’ and the second part as a meaningful word. So I would say the words are complex as I can see ‘for’ being its own separate meaning pre word. Now I do not know what ‘for’ would possibly mean but it makes sense on the surface. But since I do not know what it means I can see it also being simplex. As even though they all have the same ‘for’ unit word it could just be a  coincidence and simply mean nothing more to it. But since i think i need to choose either simplex or complex id be leaning more for complex as it seems like the more upfront gut choice.

It’s stated that Simplex are words that cannot  be broken apart. Meaning there are no affixes attached to the word. An example of that are “sleep, talk, run, and eat. “  These words are simplex because they only contain one constituent. However, Complex are words consisting of many different and connected parts. It can be broken down. It doesn’t necessarily have to be entirely meaningful.  For example, from the list of words given   you are able to break down the word “Forget” into two constituents, for – get.  We also have Forbid, forgive, forgo, and forswear.  They are all complex words. From the knowledge I have regarding simplex and complex I believe it’s clear where these words stand under. Although many can argue and see these words can go under simplex and complex, i just don’t see the meaning behind it being simplex. 

I can see both ways of these verbs being simplex and complex. As evidence for these verbs being complex, there are words that have the morpheme “for” which in these examples means “away” or “against” or “without”. So forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and foreseer seem to be systematically related in some way as they all follow a similar pattern in meaning. However, “for” in the beginning of all words does not always mean this; for example, in “forward,” “fort,” and “foreign,” are all simplex because they cannot be broken up into constituents. However, I think that this specific group of given verbs would be complex, because “for” and the other half of the words are morphemes that have their own meaning. As an example: “forgo” can be broken down into “for” and “go.” When adding “for” as a prefix to “go,” it means “to go without.” Similarly, “forswear” can be broken down into “for” and “swear,” and together they mean to swear against, or wrongly. 

Simplex words are words that cannot be broken down any further into smaller units. Some examples of simplex words are farm, walk, talk, buy, eat, and paint. These words are simplex because they only contain one constituent. They can not be broken apart into 2 morphological constituents. Complex words are words that can be broken down into 2 morphological constituents. Examples of this would be farmer, walking, talking, buyer, eating, and painter. Although they may seem like they are the same words as mentioned before they are not. These words now have an affix added to them (-ing and -er). This affix indicates that the word contains 2 constituents. So in words like forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear there are 2 morphological constituents. Just like an affix adds another constituent to a word, so does a prefix. In this case, the prefix is “for” and the affixes are “bid, get, give, go, and swear.”  This is why I believe that forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear are complex words. The evidence shows that they have 2 morphological constituents. 

It’s noted that simplex words cannot decompose into smaller units. This means that there are no affixes attached to the word, the word itself stands alone. Therefore, another word cannot derive from a simplex word. On the other hand, complex words contain affixes and are able to decompose into smaller units, or constituents. The words “forbid,” “forget,” “forgive,” “forgo,” and “forswear” are considered to be complex words. In each of the words there is a prefix (for) with an a root word attached. For example, you are able to breakdown the word  “forgive” into 2 constituents- for and give. If asked to analyze just the word “for” we would automatically assume the word is simplex since it stands alone and cannot be broken down into smaller units. But, because there are 2 constituents in the given list of words they are to be complex. Additionally, complex words are typically “one who does the verb.”

Words can be broken down in various ways and may have meanings attached to them, some words may be broken down and not have any form of significant meaning. However, I also learned that a morpheme cannot be divided any further, but it adds meaning to a word. I would say that words like “forbid”, “forget”, “forgive”, “forgo” and “forswear” can be considered as complex words because they are words made up of multiple parts that can be divided into two or more constituents or morphemes, and depending on the word, they might either make meaning or not when broken down. Simplex words for example, are made up of single or simple parts and cannot be divided into two or more constituents or morphemes because they would not make any meaning but when they stay in their original form, they make a full meaning. Complex words obviously consist of simplex words which make up their prefixes, followed by the root or affix. The given words can all be broken down into two parts (constituents/ morphemes) where the word “for” (prefix) is a word on its own as well as the affixes “bid”, “get”, “give”, “go” and “swear” are all words that can stand on its own too and make sense. Therefore, I think they are complex words.

• forbid     for-bid
• forget     for-get
• forgive   for-give 
• forgo      for-go 
• forswear  for-swear

Complex words are words that can be broken down into tow or more constituents words like buyer that have the word buy and the prefix er on the other hand simplex words are words that can not be broken down because they are in the simplest form of a word. . These set of words can be classified as complex because they can be deconstructed into two constituents. In this set of words the root of all these words is for followed by another lexical word. For instance the word forbid, this word consist of two constituents, for is a preposition which can be attached to the word the so its a lexical word and is attached by another lexical word bid . We see this with the words for-get a preposition connected with the verb get. Forgive has a preposition connected to the verb give.

 

 

After reading last week’s reading, I’ve understood that simplex words are words that can’t be decomposed any further into smaller units. Meaning a simplex word, has no affixes. So, another word cannot form out of the original word and stand on its own, but can only into sound segments. On the other hand we have complex words, which are words that can be decomposed into smaller constituents, and can stand on its own. Meaning, these are words that can be broken down. Like for example “football” – it can be decomposed into “foot” and “ball” and each word can stand alone, and have its own meaning. The verbs forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, and forswear are all examples of complex words. Each one of these verbs can be broken down into smaller constituents. In each verb that was given, there are two morphemes indicated. The first morpheme being “for” which is a prefix for all the verbs that were given. The second morpheme for each of the following words would be “bid”, “get”, “give”, “go”, and “swear” and these would all be considered the suffixes to each verb. 

 

From my understanding, simplex words are words which tend to stand on their own and make complete meaning out of themselves without any additional words added to them. These are usually words that cannot be broken down into other constituents. On the other hand, complex words are words that can be broken down into two constituents and do not have to be entirely meaningful. They can be made up of a simplex word too and other words which usually compliment them which are referred to as morphemes. From the list of words, we have here; forbid, forget, forgive, forgo, forswear; I believe they are complex words. This is because they can each be divided into two constituents to form morphemes. In this case, their prefix “for” is one morpheme while “bid”, “get”, “give” or “swear” is the second morpheme. Their suffixes tend to make meaning while they stand alone and can be called simplex words.