MORPHOLOGY
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UNIT 1
INTRODUCTION
The American linguists viewed that there are four levels of linguistics : semantic level : deals with meaning
The levels were assumed to be ordered in hierarchy, with phonology at the bottom and semantics at the top. In 1920-1945 American linguists who were many of them structuralim worked hard to find the theory of how sounds are used to distinguish meaning in language. They developed and refined the theory of phoneme (Sapir 1925 and other linguists). Their focus gradually shifted to morphology. In 1940-1960, structuralism was in its high activities. Many linguists investigated the theory of words-structure (Bloomfield, Nida) Later Chomsky and his contemporaries present many kinds of research concerning of the word-structure theories
Some definitions of Morphology
- Morphology is the study of how words are structured (McManis) -Morphology is the system of categories and rules involved in words formation and interpretation (O’Grady)
- Morphology is the study of morphemes and their arrangements in forming words (Nida)
WORD CLASS/SYNTACTIC CATEGORY/PARTS OF SPEECH:
There are two kinds of them:
●a VERB is a word which occur as apart of a predicate of a sentence. Verbs can be divided into auxiliary verbs and main verbs.
Two kinds of auxiliary verbs : primary auxiliary ( be,have, and do) Modal auxiliary (will, can, must,etc)
Main verbs refer to state verbs (state verbs describe states which continue over a period, eg : be, belive, consider, hope, know, etc) and action verbs (describe something which happens in a limited time, and has a definite beginning and end, e.g: ask, come, get, say etc)
●ADJECTIVE is the word that describe the thing, quality, state, or action which a noun refer to, eg : black a black hat.
●ADVERB is a word that describe or adds to the meaning of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or sentence.
B CLOSED–SYSTEM items : they cannot be extended
●PRONOUN is a word which replace a noun, eg. she, we.
●CONJUNCTION is a word which joins, words, phrases, or clauses, eg. and, but
●DETERMINER is a word which is used with a noun, and which limits the meaning of the
quantifiers: some, many. numerals : the first, two chairs ●ARTICLE is a word like a, the
●PREPOSITION is word like to, for, in, at
●INTERJECTION a word such as ugh!, wow! Which indicate an emotional state
UNIT 2
MORP AND MORPHEME
A MORP →
In the other hand, A MORPHEME →
1. is a minimal linguistic unit which has a meaning or grammatical function.
e.g :
noun + al → adjective medicine medicinal person personal sense sense –u-al
UNIT 3 AFFIX
When we find a morpheme that can be attached to the other morpheme, we called it an affix.
AN AFFIX →
is a letter or sound, or a group of letters or sounds ( a morpheme) which is added to a word.
There are 3 kinds of affixes:
1. A PREFFIX is an affix attached before a root or stem or base. e.g : un- kind → un -: prefix kind : root
2. A SUFFIX is an affix attached after a root. e.g: lazy –ness → lazy : root - ness : suffix
3.AN INFIX is an affix attached within a word e.g : Indonesian language : jari → j -em - ari
In order to represent the internal structure of words, it is necessary not only to identify each of the component morphemes but also to classify these element .
EXERCISES :
4.THE STEM a part of a word that is in existence before inflectional affixes eg : work → root
5.Isolate them and decide free or bound morphemes
puppies catsup succotash entrust unhappy milder bicycle signpost comfortable Massachusetts reconditioned unidirectional thickness
6. Write several monomorphemes words:
7. Write several polymorphemes words
8.Isolate these words
e,g, : babies → baby : free morpheme - s bound morphemes monstrous undeniable laziness fatalities divisible fixation
9. In each group of words below, two words have a different morphological structure than the others :
one has a different type of suffix, and one has no suffix at all. Identify the word that has no suffix and the word whose suffix is different from the others. Isolate the suffix that the remaining two words share and give its type and function.
a.rider b.tresses c.running d.tables colder melodies foundling lens silver Bess’s handling witches actor guess fling calculates
a. tigers speakers b. untimely uniquely c. wholesome gruesome d untimely uniquely e consumed consumption f. decorating decentralizing g leucocyte erythrocyte - divide them into morpheme.
UNIT 4
AFFIX MORPHEMES
What is an affix morpheme? DERIVATIONAL MORPHEME
A letter or sound, or group of letters or sounds (a morpheme) which is added to a word, and which changes the meaning or function of the word.
4 Typically occurs at the margins of words Typically occur before inflectional suffixes.
Most morphemes have SEMANTIC CONTENT (MEANING) ▪ function morphemes (inflectional morphemes)
to provide information about grammatical function (prepositionsarticles,pronouns and conjunction)
▪ content morphemes (derivational morphemes)
to have some kind of independent, identifiable meaning or indicatea change in meaning when added to a word. ( roots and all derivational affixes)
EXERCISE
It occurs in
1 -s → subject is singular noun/pronoun he,she it verb → -s
(1) This pianist performs in the local hall every week.
The words (1) perform has an –s suffix. It tells us that thensentence (1) is acceptable sentence because it follows the grammatical rule of English concerning agreement between a verb and its subject. The suffix –s on the verb is obligatory when the subject is a singular noun phrase. The –s on the verb does not make any independent contribution to the meaning of the sentence.
2.- ed → past tense
(2) The pianist performed in the local hall yesterday,
The verb perform- is added with the suffix –ed, it tells us that the verb is written in the past tense which is desribed that the event happens in the past. The –ed on the verb does not make any independent contribution to the meaning of the sentence.
3. -ing → progressive
(3) The pianist is performing his ability in the hall now.
The verb perform –is added with the suffix –ing. It tells us that the sentence is written in the progressive sentence. The –ing on the verb does not make any independent contribution to the meaning.
4 –en → past participle
The verb eat is added with the suffi –en. It tells us that the sentence is in the present perfect tense have/has – past participle. The – en on the verb does not make any independent contribution to the meaning.
5. –s → plural marker
(5) There were four rows of seats.
For the words that are having the irregular chnges in the plural form, as : man –men child-children, tooth-teeth → called internal changes
6. – s → possesive
(6) The man’s bicycle is blue.
The noun man is added with the suffix ‘s, it shows that the noun is in the possesive case.
7. –er → comparative adjective or adverb (7) Bill is taller than Tom.
Tom walks faster than Bill.
The adjective/ adverb are added with the comparative form –er. 8 –est → superlative
(8) Valery is the fastest runner in this competition.
The adjective fast is added with the superlative form –est.
EXERCISES:
a.woman,women’s, women, womanly b.greenish,greener,green,greens. c.written,wrote, writer, rewrite, writing
2. What word form represents each of the following grammatical words? a. the plural of the noun noose
b the plural of the noun goose c the plural of the noun moose d. the past tense of the verb play e. the past tense of the verb lay
d the past tense of the verb lie (rest horizontally
KULIAH 5
DERIVATIONAL MOPHEMES (1)
1. The performance last week was particularly impressive. 2. The performances were great.
We notice that there is a plural form of the word performance → performances. The word performance here is not the variant of the word perform. :
Perform → verb Performance (s) → noun.
The plural form of the word performance, performances is the same as the word cat, cats → the two form of the lexeme cat, singular and plural.
It makes sense to regard the word performance and performances as the two forms of the a lexeme performance. So the relationship between the word perform and performance is not between words form but between lexeme. The relationship between lexemes is called DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY.
●Adverbs derived from adjectives
There are two kinds of derivational process : adjective adverb 1. + ly → deep deeply lazy lazily
2 + Ǿ→ conversion (zero derived) = a lexeme belongs to one class can be converted to another class without any overt shape in shape
● Nouns derived from nouns
English has derivational processes that yield nouns with meaning : a.Small X → -let, -ette,-ie eg : booklet
b.Female X → -ss, -ine, eg : princess c.Inhabitant of X → - er, -(i) an, eg : Londoners d.State of being an X → -ship, -hood, eg : motherhood e.Devotee of expert on X → -ist, -ian eg. : historian GIVE SEVERAL OTHER EXAMPLES : ………….
Many of them have UNPREDICTABLES meaning, a cigarette is not merely a small cigar, brotherhood means not ‘a state of being a brother’ but rather ‘secret or semi-secret society.
● Nouns derives from adjectives
Al these three suffixes mean basically ‘property of being X’, where x is base adjectives. adjective noun
a. – ity → pure purity
b. – ness → good goodness
c. - ism → radical radicalism
But : high (adj.) ≠ highness (noun) = royal personage eg : Her Royal Highness height = property of being high
Noun → abstract noun means activity or result of X-ing. verb noun
a. - ance, -ence eg ignore ignorance b. - ment, develop development c. - ing paint painting d. –((a)t) ion organize organizing e -al refuse refusal d. –er sing singer
The suffix –er is the one most generally used for forming nouns denoting a person performing the action of corresponding verb.
e. coversion
- change the position of the stress
permìt pĕrmit tranfĕr tr nsferǎ
- change in the final consonant
believe belief prove proof defend defence - change in vowel sing song Sit seat
1. What nouns can be formed from these words by suffixan. define defer detain
refine refer retain confine confer contain
2. The following words can be either nouns or verbs. Record outline report
Journey convict outrage exchange imprint answer remark record import surprise retreat cripple
a) for each of the word, determine whether stress placement can be used to make the distinction between noun and verb.
KULIAH 6
DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES
Preffixes : adjective adjective un - means not sure unsure in - means not
the allomorph im- , il-, ir-
correct incorrect possible impossible legal illegal responsible irresponsible Suffixes :
- ish means ‘some what X’ green greenish small smallish
● Adjectives derived from verbs
verb adjective
- able, ible means able to be Xed break breakable - ent, -ant tending to X repell repellent - ive tending to X speculate speculative
The forms of ‘inflection morphemes’ –ed, -en, and –ing are considered as adjectives derived from verbs : a not very interesting book
The party-goers sounded very drunk
(notice that very cannot modify verbs)
● Adjectives derived from nouns
Noun adjective
- full meaning meaningful - less meaning meaningless - al origin original - ish boy boyish
● Verbs derived from verbs.
verb verb Prefixes
Re- means reversive ente re-enter Un- negative tie untie De- negative compose decompose Dis- negative believe disbelieve
● Verbs derived from nouns
Noun verb Prefixes
Sufixes
-ise terror terrorise -(i)fy beauty beautify
By replacing the final voiceless consonant of a noun with a voiced one Bath bathe Breath breathe
EXERCISE
1.What verb can be form from these adjectives Full poor long active humble Empty rich short national national
2–ism was discussed only as a suffix for deriving nouns from adjectives. Give examples which to show that it can be used to derive nouns from nouns and from other adjectives. 3. –ly is a suffix for deriving adverbs from adjectives. Give exmples to show that it can be used to derived adjective from nouns.
4.Consider the following words :
untie desks triumphed preplan (V) optionality invalid ageless fastest prettier invalid (A) Draw a tree structure for each word
Tom is a New Yorker
Explain the affix –er in these threes words, isolate them
KULIAH 7
are rearranged
Apart from stress, for distinguishing compound from phrases is a semantic: a compound has a meaning that is unpredictable.
All this compounds have a verb as the rightmost element → right headed.
b. compound adjective
The preposition over as its first element is the most productive morpheme The meaning of over … is ‘too X.’ → right headed
c. compound nouns
◦ V-N → swearword, drophammer, playtime ◦ N-N hairnet. Mosquito net, butterfly net ◦ A-N blackboard, greenstone, faintheart ◦ P-N in-group, outpost,overcoat
HEADLESS COMPOUND e.g : pickpocket, killjoy
Pickpocket is not a kind of pocket.
The word-class of these headless compounds is not determined by any element inside them. It is called EXOCENTRIC → having a centre outside themselves.
Headed compounds → having an internal centre is called ENDOCENTIC UNIT 8
WORD FORMATION PROCESS (2)
THE TREE DIAGRAM OF THE COMPONDS NOUN COMPOUNDS
N N
f.sofware
UNIT 9
WORD FORMATION (3) AFFIXATION
An affix is a morpheme which only occurs when attached to some other morpheme or morphemes such as root or stem or base.
3 types of affixes : prefixes suffixes infixes
2 kinds of affixes
Inflectional affixes
In English it is common to distinguish between two sets of derivational affixes. Class 1 affixes
Most of which are
The various possibility are :
Domest-ic-ity spac-ious-ness fear-less-ness Root 1 1 root 1 2 root 2 2
UNIT 10
WORD FORMATION PROCESS (4)
CONVERSION (ZERO DERIVATION)
Conversion is a process that assigns an already existing word to a new syntactic category. Even though it does not add an affix, conversion resembles derivation because of the change in the category and meaning that it brings about.
REDUPLICATION
The morphological process that exists in several languages (but not English). Reduplication is repeating the entire word (full reduplicariction) or partial reduplication. e.g. It’s a big…big ..dog.
MORPHEME INTERNAL CHANGES
Although the usual pattern of plural formation is to add an inflectional morpheme, some English words make an internal modification
A morphological process where a root morpheme is replacing by phonologically unrelated form. d
e. g : go – went – gne is-are-been
EXERCISE :
1.Each of the following columns illustrates a different morphological process. a.A what morphological process is at work in column A, B, C?
b.Describe in your own words the difference between the process in column A and B. A B C
Week-end, hairdresser, kind-hearted. (k)
3 What verbs can be formed by prefixation, suffixation, or conversion. Full empty poor rich long short active national humble proud 4.-full was discussed only as a suffix for deriving nouns from adjective.
Give examples to show that it can also be used to derive nouns from other nouns 5.- ism was discussed only as suffixes deriving nouns from adjectives.
Give examples to show that it can also be used to derived nouns from other nouns.
UNIT 11
WORD FORMATION PROCESS (5)
ACRONYMS
Formed by taking the initial sounds (letters) of the words of a phrase and uniting them into a combination which is itself pronounceable as a separate word.
e.g :
BACK FORMATION
Back formation makes use of a process called analogy to derive new words, but in a rather backward manner (creates a new word by removing a real or supposed affix from another word in the language.)
Eg. Television → televise (v) Donation → donate (v)
BLENDING
Are words that are created from non-morphemic parts of two already existing items. e.g : smog → smoke and fog
brunch → breakfast and lunch
CLIPPING
is a process that shortens a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables. e.g : prof - professor
Some words are unable to stand alone as independent forms for phonological reasons, called clitics.
Clitic must be attached to another word in the sentence e.g I’m leaving
