1. TESOL CERTIFICATE
PROGRAM
LINGUISTICS
February 2, 2012

2. agenda
 Morphology
 Review HW in groups
 Teaching Vocabulary

3. Morphology is…
the study of word formation.
Word Classes
(parts of speech)
Function Form

4. Nouns
Functional Definition….
A person, place, thing (or idea)…
What are the FORMS that nouns can take?
teacher teachers - (1) can take a plural form
Countable Uncountable
The oil in the can has an unpleasant odor.
The oil’s odor was unpleasant - (2) can take possessive
Nouns can be inflected for number and case.
Quick exercise – 4.1

5. Verbs…. (are action words?)
walk walked walks walking
….are words that can be inflected for tense.
He walk to school everyday.
He walks to school everyday.
…are words that can be inflected for person and number.

6. Verbs….
He is walking to school. (present participle)
He walks to school.
He has walked to school for 5 years. (past participle)
He had walked to school for 5 years before he bought a
car.
…are words that can be inflected for aspect.
Verbs are words that can be inflected for tense, aspect, person
and number.

7. Adjectives….
This class is harder than the other class.
This class is the hardest class.
This is the most amazing class I’ve ever taken.
….can be inflected for comparison.
Data analysis 4.3

8. Adverbs…
Sentence adverbials – Unfortunately, although, first, etc….
Degree adverbials – very, really, so, etc…
Manner adverbials – quickly, slowly, etc…
Adverbs are words that take no inflection and perform multiple modifying functions.
Quick exercise – 4.1, 4.2

9. Minor Classes- Pronouns
He loves her deeply, but she despises him because of his foul odor.
The man loves the woman deeply, but the woman despises the man
because of the man’s foul odor.
Pronouns can be inflected for case.
Case – the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and some
other element in the sentence.

10. Morphemes
….minimal units of meaning in language.

11. Free Bound
Lexical Grammatical Lexical
Grammatical
content function content function
Derivational
morphemes
Bound roots – (clude, ation
‘ject’ ‘duce’ ,
‘vert’ Changes
Major Minor part of
Parts of Parts of Inflectional morphemes – speech)
Speech Speech adds an element of meaning
(nouns, ve (prepositions) required by the grammar –
rbs, etc) does not change part of
speech only form.

12. Morphology
8 Inflectional affixes (required by grammar, does not
change part of speech, only form)
{PLU} = Plural ( noun + {PLU} ) table + {PLU} = tables
{POSS} = Possessive
{COMP} = Comparative
{SUP} = Superlative
{PRES} = Present
{PAST} = Past
{PAST PART} = Past Participle
{PRES PART} = Present Participle
Quick exercises, 4.4-4.9

13. Apply what you know…
 1. a. information is a non-count noun (called a mass noun)
b. From my point of view, or In my opinion
c. Remodeling is usually used for rooms, houses, buildings, etc.
d. Wrong formation of compound noun.
e. New Word: Fascinated
Rephrasing: Photography has been a passion of mine since I
was a child.
f. Solutions collocates with found, not ‘met’.
g. Aware of, not aware to
h. By pure chance, …

14. Apply what you know…
 4.
See Look Watch Stare Peer Glance
Rule Ability, Intentional Duration Duration Negative Duration,
non- , short
volitional negative
Example
Write a
Question
Answer

15.  5. Students need to be made aware that the word has different
meanings in different contexts.
Weak Strong
not really pretty, kind of very, extremely
soon good
Pretty
fast nice