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Chapter 1 Dividing Words Up

Chapter 1 Dividing Words Up. Morphology Lane 333. Introduction. There are words in English that can’t be divided into parts, Such as ‘tea, steal, small, fast, in, me, and …’ But, lots of words consist of smaller parts (they have structure). Morpheme.

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Chapter 1 Dividing Words Up

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  1. Chapter 1Dividing Words Up Morphology Lane 333

  2. Introduction • There are words in English that can’t be divided into parts, Such as ‘tea, steal, small, fast, in, me, and …’ • But, lots of words consist of smaller parts (they have structure)

  3. Morpheme • A morpheme: is the smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function (re-value, strong-ly, cat-s) • Free morphemes: the parts of the word that can stand by themselves, such as ‘book-shelf’ • Bound morphemes: the parts of the word that can’t stand alone & need the support of other morphemes, such as in ‘quick-ly’

  4. Morphemes • Typical morphemes: • are meaningful • recur in a language's vocabulary • may recur in regular interchanges • Some words may consist only of bound morphemes (presumption, exclude)

  5. Morphological Segmentation • Segmentation: is dividing words up into morphemes • Morphology: the academic study of word structure

  6. Exercises 1.1 Divide these words up into their constituent parts (morphemes)

  7. Exercises 1.5 Compare the following pairs of words, & decide which consist of one morpheme & which of two

  8. Exercises 1.6 which of the following English words are one-morpheme words? 1.7 What might the morpheme –ee, if that’s what it is, mean?

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