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Morphology Tita Ratna Wulan Dari

Morphology Tita Ratna Wulan Dari. Lexical Content Words Function Words Bound and Free Morphemes. Answer these questions:. How long have y o u been studying English? How many English words do you know? How big is your vocabulary size? Do you know all vocabularies written in a dictionary?

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Morphology Tita Ratna Wulan Dari

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  1. MorphologyTita Ratna Wulan Dari Lexical Content Words Function Words Bound and Free Morphemes

  2. Answer these questions: • How long have you been studying English? • How many English words do you know? • How big is your vocabulary size? • Do you know all vocabularies written in a dictionary? • Which contributes to language developement human or dictionary? • How does it contribute?

  3. Morphology • The study of the structure of words & how words are formed (from morphemes) • The study of words formation • An investigation of basic forms in language • The words of language

  4. Morphemes • The smallest unit of language that carries meaning (maybe a word or not a word) • A sound-meaning unit • A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function • The level of language at which sound and meaning combine A. Free morpheme: lexical & functional morpheme B. Bound morpheme: derivational & inflectional

  5. Morphemes • These are units which can be smaller than a word but which have a recognisable meaning) they do not coincide with syllables • (e.g. -ed for past meaning, -s for plural on nouns and third person singular on verbs) • ‘dogs’ has one syllable but two morphemes dog+s

  6. Free Morpheme • Definition: can occur by itself, not attached to other morphemes • Examples: girl, teach, book, class, the, of, etc. • Two kinds A. lexical morpheme(open class) 1.definition:has lexical meaning; new examples can befreely added 2. examples:N, Verb, Adj, Adv (content words) B. functional morpheme (closed class) 1. definition:new examples are rarely added (but not impossible to add) 2. examples:Pro, Prep, Conj, Art. (function words)

  7. Bound morphemes Some morphemes are called bound morphemes; that is they only occur with other morphemes (e.g. the suffixes –ed for past meaning, the present continuous morpheme –ing, the adjective endings –er and –est in comparative and superlative and the prefixes un-, in-, mis- which have negative meaning)

  8. Bound Morpheme I.Definition: must be attached to another morpheme II. Derivational morpheme • may change syntactic class • to form new words • examples: -able, un-, re-, etc. III. Inflectional morpheme • Different forms of the same word • Not change syntactic class • examples: -’s, -s (plural nouns), -ing, -ed/-en, -est, -er, -s (S-V agreement)

  9. Conclusion lexical free(open classes) Morphemes functional (closed classes) boundderivational (affixes)inflectional

  10. ExercisesClassify these into lexical or functional • Phone • Morphology • Compare • On • Into • Nevertheless • In • A • Amazingly • Into • Some • To • Purple • Out

  11. Exercises • Write 5 words and classify their morphemes • Give 5 examples of free morphemes • Give 5 examples of bound morphemes which are attached in a stem

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