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Morphology

Morphology. Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the structure of words . In English and many other languages, many words can be broken down into parts. For example: unhappiness un-happi-ness horses horse-s walking walk-ing. Morphology.

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Morphology

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  1. Morphology • Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the structure of words. • In English and many other languages, many words can be broken down into parts. For example: • unhappiness un-happi-ness • horses horse-s • walking walk-ing

  2. Morphology • un- carries a negative meaning • ness- expresses a state or quality • s- expresses plurality • ing- conveys a sense of duration • A word like “yes”, however, has no internal grammatical structure. We can analyze the sounds, but none of them has any meaning in isolation.

  3. Morphology • The smallest unit which has a meaning or grammatical function that words can be broken down into are known as morphemes. • So to be clear: “un” is a morpheme. • “yes” is also a morpheme, but also happens to be a word.

  4. Morphology • There are several important distinctions that must be made when it comes to morphemes: • (1) – Free vs. Bound morphemes • Free morphemes are morphemes which can stand alone. We have already seen the example of “yes”.

  5. Morphology • Bound morphemesnever exist as words themselves, but are always attached to some other morpheme. We have already seen the example of “un”. • When we identify the number and types of morphemes that a given word consists of, we are looking at what is referred to as the structure of a word.

  6. Morphology • Every word has at least one free morpheme, which is referred to as the root,stem, or base. • We can further divide bound morphemes into three categories: • prefixun-happy • suffix happi-ness • infix abso-blooming-lutely • The general term for all three is affix.

  7. Morphology • (2) –Derivational vs. Inflectional morphemes • Derivational morphemescreate or derive new words by changing the meaning or by changing the word class of the word.  • For example: • happy → unhappy • Both words are adjectives, but the meaning changes.

  8. Morphology • quick → quickness • The affix changes both meaning and word class - adjective to a noun. • In English, derivational morphemes can be either prefixes or suffixes.

  9. Morphology • Inflectional morphemesdon’t alter words the meaning or word class of a word; instead they only refine and give extra grammatical information about the word’s already existing meaning. • For example: • Cat → cats • walk → walking

  10. Morphology • In English: Inflectional morphemes are all suffixes (by chance, since in other languages this is not true). • There are only 8 inflectional morphemes in English: (you just have to memorize them) • 2 for nouns, 4 for verbs, 2 for adjectives

  11. Morphology • Nouns • -s plural • “Both chairs are broken” • -’s possessive • “The chair’s leg is broken”

  12. Morphology • Verbs • -s 3rd person singular present • “He waits” (as opposed to 1st person “I wait” and 2nd person “you wait”) • -ed past tense • “He waited”

  13. Morphology • -en past participle • “I had eaten” • -ing present participle (progressive) • “He is waiting”

  14. Morphology • Adjectives • -er comparative • “He was faster” • -est superlative • “He was the fastest”

  15. Morphology • Inflectional morphemes are required by syntax. (That is, they indicate syntactic or semantic relations between different words in a sentence). • For example: • Nim loves bananas. • but  • They love bananas.

  16. Morphology • Derivational morphemes are different in that syntax does not require the presence of derivational morphemes; they do, however, indicate sematic relations within a word (that is, they change the meaning of the word). • For example: • kind → unkind • I am unkind You are unkind • He is unkind They are unkind

  17. Morphology • A morpheme is not equal to a syllable: • "coats"  has 1 syllable, but 2 morphemes. • "syllable" has 3 syllables, but only 1 morpheme

  18. Morphology • Types of Word-Formation Processes • One of the most productive ways to form new words is through affixation, which is forming new words by the combination of bound affixes and free morphemes. • There are three types of affixation: • Prefixation: where an affix is placed before the base of the word

  19. Morphology • Suffixation:where an affix is placed after the base of the word • Infixation: where an affix is placed within a base (abso-blooming-lutely) • While English uses primarily prefixation and suffixation, many other languages use infixes.

  20. Morphology • In Tagolog, a language of the Philippines, for example, the infix ‘um’ is used for infinitive forms of verbs (to _______) • sulat ‘write’ sumulat ‘to write’ • bili ‘buy’ bumili ‘to buy’ • kuha ‘take’ kumuha ‘to take’

  21. Morphology • A second word-formation process is known as Compounding, which is forming new words not from bound affixes but from two or more independent words: the words can be free morphemes, words derived by affixation, or even words formed by compounds themselves. • e.g. girlfriend air-conditioner • blackbird looking-glass • textbook watchmaker

  22. Morphology • Compound words have different stress, as in the following examples: • 1.The wool sweater gave the man a red neck. • 2.The redneck in the bar got drunk and started yelling

  23. Morphology • In compounds, the primary stress is on the first word only, while individual words in phrases have independent primary stress. • blackbird black bird • makeup make up

  24. Morphology • A third word-formation process is known as Reduplication, which is forming new words either by doubling an entire free morpheme (total reduplication) or part of a morpheme (partial reduplication). • English doesn’t use this, but other languages make much more extensive use of reduplication.

  25. Morphology • In Indonesian, for example, total reduplication is used to form plurals: • rumah ‘house’ • rumahrumah ‘houses’ • ibu ‘mother’ • ibuibu ‘mothers’ • lalat ‘fly’ • lalatlalat ‘flies’

  26. Morphology • A fourth type of word-formation process is known as Blending, where two words merge into each other, such as: • brunch from breakfast and lunch • smog from smoke and fog 

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