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CHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGY: THE WORDS OF LANGUAGE (71-114)

CHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGY: THE WORDS OF LANGUAGE (71-114). PowerPoint by Don L. F. Nilsen to accompany An Introduction to Language (8e, 2007) by Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman and Nina Hyams. CONTENT WORDS VS. FUNCTION WORDS.

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CHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGY: THE WORDS OF LANGUAGE (71-114)

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  1. CHAPTER 3MORPHOLOGY: THE WORDS OF LANGUAGE(71-114) PowerPoint by Don L. F. Nilsen to accompany An Introduction to Language (8e, 2007) by Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman and Nina Hyams 32

  2. CONTENT WORDS VS. FUNCTION WORDS • You may have been told that there are eight Parts of Speech in English. • You may have been told that their names are: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Articles, Auxiliary Verbs and Expletives. • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 74-76) 32

  3. What your teachers told you is not a lie, but it is very much an oversimplification. • These Part-of-Speech Categories need to be divided into two very different types of Parts of Speech. • The Content Words carry real-world meaning. • The Function words carry only grammatical meaning. • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 74-76) 32

  4. The Content Words are Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs. • The Function Words are Articles, Auxiliary Verbs and Expletives. • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 74-76) • The Pronouns belong to neither of these categories. Pronouns can stand in the place of Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositional Phrases, or even Sentences. 32

  5. Since Content Words carry real-world meaning: • Content words can be stressed. • Content words cannot be easily figured out if they are deleted. • Content words can be inflected. • Content words more readily enter into compounds. • Content words are an open set; new ones enter our language daily. • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 74-76) 32

  6. Pronouns meet some of these criteria but not others. They carry some real-world meaning, but not as much as the words they replace. • They can sometimes be stressed. • They can be figured out if deleted. • They can be inflected. • They don’t enter into compounding. • They are a closed set. • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 74-76) 32

  7. CATEGORIES VS. FUNCTIONS • “Noun” is a category. “Subject” is a function. • A Noun or a Pronoun can function as a Subject, a Subject Complement, a Direct Object, an Indirect Object, an Object Complement or an Object of a Preposition. • Pronouns functioning as S or SC are in subject form; those functioning as DO, IO, OC, or OP are in object form. 32

  8. A Verb functions as a Predicate. • An Adjective or an Adverb functions as a Modifier. • An Adjective answers “which,” “what kind of,” or “how many” and modifies a Noun. • An Adverb answers “how,” “when,” “where” or “how much” and modifies a Verb, an Adjective, an Adverb or a Sentence. 32

  9. Function Words have only grammatical meaning. • Prepositions relate Nouns to other Nouns (fourth of July). • Conjunctions relate Sentences to other Sentences. • Articles mark Nouns. • Auxiliaries mark Verbs. • Expletives mark the place of the Subject so that the Subject can be postponed. 32

  10. OLD AND NEW INFORMATION • The Subject of a sentence gives Old Information. It provides the “subject” for the people to talk about. • The Predicate of a sentence gives New Information. It provides new and insightful information about the Subject. 32

  11. Subject and Predicate are important not only to Linguists, but also to Rhetoricians, Psychologists, Logicians, etc., but different names are used in different fields: • Subject vs. Predicate • Topic vs. Comment • Old Information vs. New Information • Theme vs. Rheme • Presupposition vs. Assertion 32

  12. Contrast the following • Bound vs. Free Morphemes • Stem vs. Affix • Prefix vs. Suffix vs. Infix • Derivational vs. Inflectional • Content vs. Functional Morphemes • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 76-84) 32

  13. Analyze the following word • antidisestablishmentarianism • STEM: stable or establish • Suffixes: -ment, -arian, -ism • Prefixes: dis-, anti- 32

  14. NOUNS • PLURAL: cats, dogs, horses, deer, data, mice, alumni • POSSESSIVE: dog’s, its • PLURAL POSSESSIVE: dogs’ • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 98-101) • NOTE: English used to have four cases: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, and Accusative 32

  15. VERBS • THIRD PERSON SINGULAR PRESENT INDICATIVE: goes • PAST TENSE: buzzed, walked, heated, sang • PAST PARTICIPLE: driven, hit, liked • PRESENT PARTICIPLE: driving • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 98-101) • NOTE: English used to have two more forms: driveth, drivest 32

  16. SUPPLETIVE VERBS • A suppletive form is one which comes from two different paradigms. These must be high-frequency words, or they will become regularized through common use. • “Go-went” is a suppletive verb, as is “is-be.” “Go” comes from the “go” paradigm, while “went” comes from the “wend” paradigm. • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 101) 32

  17. ADJECTIVES • COMPARATIVE: higher, more beautiful, more friendly • SUPERLATIVE: highest, most beautiful, most friendly • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 98-101) • NOTE: Old English Adjectives used to have four cases (Nom, Gen, Dat, Acc), agreed with nouns, and came after nouns 32

  18. ADVERBS • COMPARATIVE: faster, more imaginatively • SUPERLATIVE: fastest, most imaginatively • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 98-101) • Adverbs usually end in –ly, however there are • FLAT ADVERBS: fast, first • AND –LY ADJECTIVES: friendly 32

  19. PERSONAL PRONOUNS • Sing Nom Obj Pos Substantive Reflexive • 1st I me my mine myself • 2nd you you your yours yourself • 3rd he him his his himself • she her her hers herself • it it its its itself • Plural • 1st we us our ours ourselves • 2nd you you your yours yourselves • 3rd they them their theirs themselves 32

  20. RELATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS • RELATIVE: INTERROGATIVE • when when • where where • why why • how how • which which • what what • that 32

  21. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS singular: plural: • close: this that • far: these those 32

  22. Contrast these sentences • When did she arrive? (Int Pro) • I know when she arrived. (Rel Pro) • This is the pen that you borrowed. (Rel Pro) • Please give me that pen. (Dem Pro) • I know that you wanted to do well. (SC) 32

  23. INDEFINITE PRONOUNS (GO WITH A SINGULAR VERB) THING: PLACE: TIME: ANY anything anywhere anytime NO nothing nowhere never SOME- something somewhere sometime 32

  24. ARCHAIC FORMS:SHAKESPEARE & THE BIBLE NOMINATIVE: POSSESSIVE: ACCUSATIVE: SINGULARS: thou (Nom), thy, thine (Gen), thee (Acc) PLURALS: you, ye DUALS: wit, uncer, unc, git, incer, inc (NOTE: No longer in Modern English 32

  25. MORPHOLOGICAL HUMOR 32

  26. UGLIFICATION • “I never heard of ‘Uglification,’ Alice ventured to say. ‘What is it?’ The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. “never heard of uglifying!” it exclaimed. “You know what to beautify is, I suppose?’ ‘Yes,’ said Alice doubtfully: ‘it means—to make—anything-prettier.’ ‘Well, then,’ the Gryphon went on, ‘if you don’t know what to uglify is, you are a simpleton.’” • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 83) • (Carroll 128-129) 32

  27. The term “uglification” is part of a longer quote in which Alice is being told about the education system in Wonderland. Students in Wonderland study “Reeling, Writhing, Uglification and Derision.” • They call their teacher “Tortoise” because he “taught us.” • Lessons get shorter each day. That’s why they’re called “lessens.” • In Wonderland, “Latin and Greek” becomes “Laughing and Grief,” and “drawing, sketching and painting in oils” becomes “Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.” • (Carroll 128-129) 32

  28. CLICK AND CLACKTHE TAPPET BROTHERS • On National Public Radio’s “Cartalk,” Click and Clack are playing with Morphology in their list of credits: • Copyeditor: Adeline Moore • Accounts Payable: Ineeda Czech • Pollution Control: Maury Missions • Purchasing: Lois Bidder • Statistician: Marge Innovera • Russian Chauffeur: Picov Andropov • Legal Firm: Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe. • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 72) 32

  29. !BILINGUAL MORPHOLOGICAL WORD PLAY • “Un petit d’un petit • S’étonne aux Halles” • This makes no sense in French, but it makes perfect sense in English: • “Humpty Dumpty • Sat on a wall” • (Fromkin Rodman Hyams 72) 32

  30. !!WATERGATE • The Watergate Hotel is where the break-in of the National Democratic headquarters occurred. • Today’s dictionaries give more room to the metonymous meaning of Watergate than to the literal meaning of “a gate controlling the flow of water.” • “Gate” has now become a suffix meaning “scandal” as in Irangate, Contragate, Iraqgate, Pearlygate, Rubbergate, Murphygate, Gennifergate, Nannygate, Monicagate,ad infinitum. • (Nilsen & Nilsen 180) 32

  31. !!!NEW DEFINITIONS • Artery: The study of painting • Bacteria: The back door of a cafeteria • Barium: What doctors do when patients die. • Nilsen & Nilsen 177) 32

  32. References: Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York, NY: Random House, 1960. Clark, Virginia, Paul Eschholz, and Alfred Rosa. Language: Readings in Language and Culture, 6th Edition. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams. “Morphology: The Words of Language.” An Introduction to Language, 8th Edition. Boston, MA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007, 71-114. Gleason, H. A. Jr. “The Identification of Morphemes” (Clark, 144-153). Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen. Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Humor. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 32

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