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4. What is Morphology?
Morphology is a field of linguistics focused on the
study of the forms and formation of words in a
language.
MORPHOLOGY ?
5. The smallest unit of meaning or grammatical
function.
A single word may be composed of one or
more morphemes.
e.g. She looked unhappier than the day
before.
un+ happy+er
(can be analyzed into 3 morphemes)
MORPHEMES ?
What is a morpheme?
9. MORPHEMES ?
• Morphemes that can stand
by themselves as a single
word, e.g. open and tour.
Free
Morpheme
• Morphemes that cannot
normally stand alone and
are typically attached to
another form, e.g. re-, -ist,
-ed, -s.
Bound
Morpheme
10. Free morpheme
Lexical Morpheme
The first category is that set of ordinary nouns, adjectives, adverbs and
verbs that we think of as the words that carry the “content” of the massage
we convey. E.g. house, man, girl, yellow, happy, long, open, care, break.
We can add new lexical morphemes to the language rather easily, so they
are treated as an “open” class of words.
Functional Morpheme
Other type of Free Morphemes are called functional morphemes. E.g.
and, but, and, on, near, beside, the, that, it, them.
this set consists largely of the functional words in the language such as
conjunctions, preposition, articles, auxiliaries and pronouns.
Because we almost never add new functional morphemes to the language,
they are described as a “closed” class of words.
11. Derivational
Derivational morphemes derive a new word by being attached to root
morphemes or stems.
They can be both suffixes and prefixes in English.
Example: beautiful, exactly, recover.
Change grammatical category of words.
Example: teach (verb) + er (suffix) = teacher (noun)
Inflectional
Inflectional morphemes give grammatical information such as number
(plural), tense, possession and so on.
They are only found in suffixes in English.
Examples: boys, Mary’s , walked
No change of Meaning
Examples: walk vs. Walks
Never change grammatical category of words.
Example: old (adjective) + er (suffix) = older (adjective)
Bound morpheme
12. Inflectional Morphemes in English
Lexical Category Grammatical Category Examples
Noun
Noun
Verb
Verb
Verb
Verb
Adjective
Adjective
Plural
Possessive
Third person
Past tense
Past participle
Present participle
Comparative
Superlative
cars, churches
car’s, children’s
(he)swims, (it)breaks
wanted, showed
wanted, shown (showed)
wanting, showing
taller, sweeter
tallest, sweetest
Bound morpheme
13. Don’t forget !!!!!!!
A derivational suffix always attaches to a word
before an inflectional suffix.