MORPHOLOGY Morphology l The study of internal structure
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MORPHOLOGY
Morphology l The study of internal structure of words, and of the rules by which words are formed
Morphology: the word of language l Important part of our linguistic knowledge
Word l “A unit of expression which has universal intuitive recognition by native speaker, in both spoken and written language” (Crystal) l “The smallest of linguistic unit which can occur on its own in speech or writing” (Richard & Schmidt)
Conti…. l “A unit of meaning” (Finch) l “A minimal free form” (Bloomfield)
Content words l Noun, verbs, adjectives and adverbs l Denote concept such as objects, action, attributes and ideas l Open class words
Function words l Grammatical function l Conjunctions, preposition, articles, pronouns, l Articles indicate definite or indefinite noun l Preposition indicate relationship or possession l Closed-class
Morpheme “the minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function”. The minimal grammatical linguistic unit- is thus an arbitrary union of a sound and meaning that cannot be further analysed. l Every word in every language is composed of one or more morphemes.
boy (one syllable) desire, lady, boy + ish desire + able boy + ish + ness desire + able + ity gentle + man + li +ness un + desire + able +ity un + gentle + man + li+ness anti +dis + establish +ment+ari + an + ism
lexical (child, teach) free functional (and, the) Morphemes bound inflectional (re, ness) derivational (‘s, -ed)
Bound Morphemes l Cannot normally stand alone or typically attached to another form l All affixes (prefixes and suffixes) in English
Prefix l Bound morphemes which occur only before other morphemes. Examples: un- (uncover, undo) dis- (displeased, disconnect), pre- (predetermine, prejudge)
Suffixes l Bound morphemes which occur following other morphemes. Examples: -er (singer, performer) -ist (typist, pianist) -ly (manly, friendly)
Infixes l Bound morphemes which are inserted into other morphemes. Example: fikas "strong" fumikas "to be strong" (Bontoc Language)
Free Morphemes l Can stand by themselves as a single word Example: girl, system, desire, hope, act, phone, happy. . l Set of separate English word form such as basic noun, adjectives, verbs, etc.
Rules of word formation l Knowledge of individual morphemes, their pronunciation and their meaning and the knowledge of the rules for combining morphemes into complex words. l V+ify→verb l V+ify→ l +ify+ication→noun
l The form that result from addition of a derivational morpheme is called a derived word
Derivational Morphology l Derivational morphemes derive a new word by being attached to root morphemes or stems l They can be both suffixes and prefixes in English. Examples: beautiful, exactly, unhappy, impossible, recover l Change of Meaning Examples: un+do (the opposite meaning of ‘do’) sing+er ( deriving a new word with the meaning of a person who sings).
The Hierarchical Structure of Words l A word is not a simple sequence of morphemes. It has an internal structure. l Hierarchical structure is an essential property of human language.
Word Coinage l Invention of totally new terms l Words are used usually without capital letters e. g, Kleenex, Xerox, etc
Compound l Joining of two words together to form third l Involves two nouns (frequently) Book+case=bookcase Wall+paper=wallpaper Lambs+wool=lambswool
Acronyms l Words derived from the initial s of several words
l Random Access Memory l Video Cassette Recorder
Some Commonly Used Acronyms ¡CD ¡Radar ¡Laser ¡ATM ¡PIN ¡GB Compact Disk Radio Detecting and Ranging Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation Automatic teller machine Personal identification number Giga Byte
Back-formation l Specified reduction process l Word of one type is reduced to form a word of another type (usually N → V)
Continued……. l Television ………Televise l Donation………. . . Donate l Emotion………… Emote l Editor …………. . . Edit
Clipping l Abbreviation of longer words may become lexicalised
Blends
Smog
Motel
Broast
Brunch
Grammatical Morphemes Have not any clear lexical meaning have only clear sense in a sentence , e. g. to , it and etc
Inflectional Morphemes l Inflectional morphemes signal grammatical information such as number (plural), tense, possession and so on. They are thus often called bound grammatical morphemes l They are only found in suffixes in English. Examples: boys, Mary’s , walked
Inflectional Morphemes l Inflectional morphemes signal grammatical information such as number (plural), tense, possession and so on. They are thus often called bound grammatical morphemes l They are only found in suffixes in English. Examples: boys, Mary’s , walked
Conti…. l No change of Meaning Examples: walk vs. walks toy vs. toys l Never change the syntactic category of the words or morpheme to they which they are attached. l They are always attached to completed words Examples: walk vs. walked or walks (V--> V)
Conti…. l In English, inflectional morphemes typically follow derivational morphemes Examples: unlikelihood, unlikelihoods (not *unlikeslihood)
English Inflectional Morphemes l -s third person singular present She waits at home. l -ed past tense She waited at home. l -ing progressive She is eating the donut. l -en past participle Mary has eaten the donuts.
l -s plural She ate the donuts. l -’s possessive Disa's hair is short. l -er comparative Disa has shorter hair than Karin. l -est superlative Disa has the shortest hair.
Morph l Phonological realization of a morpheme l Allomorphs and variants l The appearance of one morph over another
Morphological analysis l Speaker of a language have the knowledge to perceive the component morphemes and morphological rules for their combination
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