This document discusses the linguistic level of morphology. It defines morphology as the study of word structures, especially in terms of morphemes. Morphology examines how words are formed through the combination of morphemes. The document outlines the different types of morphemes such as free morphemes like root words that can stand alone and bound morphemes like affixes that cannot be used alone. It also discusses how morphology interfaces with other linguistic levels like phonology and syntax.

1. INTRODUCTION
ADE SUDIRMAN, S.Pd
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
MATHLA’UL ANWAR UNIVERSITY

2. Introduction
Linguistics level
Pragmatic
Semantic
Syntactic
Morphological
Phonology
Meaning
Dealing with language in use
Dealing with meaning
Dealing with sentence-structure
Dealing with word-structure
Dealing with sound systems

3. WHAT IS MORPHOLOGY?
The branch of linguistics (and one of the major
components of grammar) that
studies word structures especially in terms of
morphemes. Adjective: morphological.
(http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/morphologyterm.
htm)
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Katamba (1993) says that Morphology is the study
of word structure.

4. Morpheme Definitions
Ingo Plag (2003) says, “Morpheme is the
smallest meaningful unit.”
 Hanafi (2003) states that morpheme is the
smallest meaningful unit of an utterance.
 Morpheme is the smallest difference in the
shape of a word that correlates with the
smallest difference in a word or sentence
meaning or in grammatical structure.
(Katamba: 1993)
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5. BOUND AND F RE E
M o r p h e me s
Bound Morphemes – cannot occur
unattached.
Free Morphemes – can stand on its own.
(root words and function words)
Ex. glasses
glass – free morpheme
-es – bound morpheme

6. FREE MORPHEMES
Lexical Category (content words)
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Noun
Adverb
Adjectives
Verb
Grammatical Category (function)
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Pronoun
Conjunction
Preposition
Article

7. BOUND MORPHEMES
• Affixes (prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes)
-derivational
-inflectional
DERIVATIONAL
Ex. Impossible
Im- deriv. Possible – root word

8. How many morphemes?
A
A book
A green book
A thick green book

9. Morphological Interface
1.
Morpho-Phonological Interface
1. Liberty (noun)
2. Independence (noun)
2.
liberties (noun plural)
independency (noun)
Morpho-Syntactical Interface
1. Anis laughed at her friend.
2. They love each other.

10. Thank you