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The Analysis of Word Structure…
 In Lingustics, morphology is the identification, 
analysis, and description of the structure of a given 
language and other linguistic units, refer to the part 
of the grammar that is concerned with words and 
word formation. As we will see, the study of 
morphology offers important insights into how 
language works, revealing the need for different 
categories of words, the presence of word-internal 
structure and the existence of operations that create 
and modify words in various ways.
 Words and Word Structure 
 Derivation 
 Compounding 
 Inflection 
 Other Morphological Phenomena 
 Morphophonemics
 Free and Bound Morpheme 
Free morpheme is a morpheme that can be a word by 
itself, whereas bound morpheme is a morpheme that 
must be attached to another element 
 Allomorphs 
Allomorphs is the variant form of a morpheme. The 
morpheme used to express indefiniteness in English has 
two allomorphs -an before a word that begins with a 
vowels sound and -a before a word that begins with a 
consonant sound. 
Example: an apple a table 
an ice a book … etc
Words can be divided into two, the simple words and complex words. 
Words consisting of one or more morpheme: 
One Two Three More than trhree 
And 
Girl Girl-s 
Hunt Hunt-er Hunt-er-s 
Act Act-ive Act-iv-ate Re-act-iv-ate
 Roots and Affixes 
Complex words typically consist of a root morpheme and one 
or more affixes. 
 Bases 
Example: 
A base is the form to which an affix is added. 
V 
V 
A Af Af 
Black en ed 
N A N 
V Af Af A N Af 
teach er un kind book s
Is an affixional process that forms a word with a 
meaning and / or category distinct from that of 
its base.
 Some English Derivational Affixes 
A partial list of English derivational affixes, along with 
information about the catagory of their usual base and 
of the resulting new word. 
 Complex Derivation 
N 
V 
A 
V Af Af Af 
Act ive ate ion
Affix Change Example 
Suffixes 
-able V A Fix-able 
-ment V N Protect-ion 
-ful N A Treat-ment 
-ize1 N V Hope-ful 
-ish A N Vapor-ize 
-ate A V Tall-ish 
-ly A Adv Activ-ate 
-ness A N Slow-ly 
Preffixes 
ex- N N Ex-wife 
re- V V Re-state 
in- A A In-complete
The combination of two already existent words. With 
very few exceptions, the resulting compound words is 
a noun, a verb, or an adjective.
Noun Compounds Verb Compounds Adjective Compounds 
N V A 
N N N V N A 
Fire Engine Spoon Feed Nation Wide 
Oil Well Steam Roll Sky Blue 
Compounds Non-Compounds 
Greenhouse (a glass-enclosed garden) green house (a house painted green) 
Blackboard (a chalkboard) black board (a board that is black)
The modification of a word’s form to indicate 
grammatical information of various shorts.
 For nouns, verbs and adjectives the set of inflected 
forms often help us identify the word class 
ƒ E.g. noun ‘cat’: singular cat, plural cats 
 Plural form (only for count nouns, i.e. nouns 
denoting things that can be counted like cats, e not 
mass terms such as water) 
ƒ cats, criteria, knives, teeth, sheep
Regular verbs 
walk 
walks 
sing 
sing 
Irregular verbs 
walking 
walked 
singing 
sang
 Adjective comparative superlative 
Green greener greenest 
Happy happier happiest 
 However, some adjectives do not take these 
endings: 
curious more curious, most curious 
foolish more foolish, most foolish
 Adverbs can often be recognized as being derived 
from adjectives by adding –ly (curiously, foolishly) 
 But they don’t have any other regular forms and are 
not inflected themselves 
 Prepositions don’t take any special form and don’t 
inflect 
 You can use, High Tone is assosiated with the past 
tense, and low tone with the future.
1. Cliticization 
2. Conversion 
3. Clipping 
4. Blends 
5. Backformation 
6. Acronyms 
7. Other sources of new words
 Some morphomes behave like words in terms 
of their meaning and function, but are unable 
to stand alone as independent forms for 
phonological reasons. (‘m for am, ‘s for is, and 
‘re for are) 
 Example: I’m leaving now 
Mary’s going to succeed 
They’re her now
 Conversion is process that assigns an already 
existing word to a new syntatic category. Even 
though it does not add an affix, conversion is often 
considered to be a type of derivation because of the 
change in category and meaning that it brings. 
V derived from N N derived from V V derived from A 
Ink ( a contract) ( a long) run Dirty (a shirt) 
Butter (the bread) (a hot) drink Empty (the box 
Ship (the package) (a pleasant) drive Better (the old score)
 Clipping is a process that 
shortens a polysyllabic word 
by deleting one or more 
syllables. Clipping is 
especially popular in the 
speech of students yielded 
forms like prof for proffesor, 
phys-ed for phsycal 
education, poli-sci for 
political science, and burger 
for hamburger. 
 Blends are words that are 
created from nonmorphemic 
parts of two already exsisting 
items, usually the first part of 
one and the final part of the 
other. Familiar examples 
include brunch from breakfast 
and lunch, smog from smoke 
and fog, spam from spiced and 
ham, telothon from marathon, 
aerobicis from aerobics and 
excercise.... etc.
 Backformation is a process that creates a new word 
by removing a real or suposed affix from another 
word in the language. Other backformation in 
English include enthuse from enthusiasm, donate 
from donation, orient or orientate from orientation, 
and self-destruct from self-destruction. 
Original word Misanalysis Verb formed by 
backformation 
Editor Edit + or Edit 
Peddler Peddle + er Peddle 
Swindler Swindle + er Swindle
 Acronyms are formed by talking the initial 
letters of (some or all) the words in a phrase 
or title and pronouncing them as a word. 
 Onomotopoeia across languages: 
English Japanese Tagalog 
Cock-a-doddle-doo Kokekokko Kuk-kukaok 
Meow Nyaa Nglyaw 
Chirp Pii-pii Tiririt
 Sometimes a word may be created from 
scratch. Called word manufacture or 
coinage, this phonemenon is especially 
common in the case of product names, 
include Kodak, Orlon, and Teflon. 
Word Name of the person 
Watt James Watt (late 19th-century scientist) 
Curie Marie and pierre curie (early 20th-century scientist) 
Fahrenheit Gabriel fahrenheit (18th-century scientist)
The chapter has focused on the structure and 
formation of word in human language. Many words 
consist of smaller formative elements, called 
morphonemes. The two basic types of word 
formation in English are deruvation and 
compounding.
General terms 
 Allomorphs lexicon 
 Bound morpheme morpheme 
 Complex words morphology 
 Free form simple word 
 Free morpheme word
General terms concerning 
morphologycal analysis 
 Affixes root 
 Base suffix 
 Infixes tiers 
 Lexical category trees 
 Prefix word-based 
(morphology)
Terms concerning derivation and compounding 
 Class 1 affixes endocentric 
compounds 
 Class 2 affixes exocentric 
compunds 
 Compound word head 
 Compounding incorporation
Terms concerning inflection 
 Ablaut partial reduplication 
 Agreement partial suppletion 
 Case productivity 
 Concetenative (morphology) reduplication 
 Full reduplication stem 
 Inflection suppletion 
 Internal change umlaut
Other kinds of morphologycal phenomena 
 Acronyms enclitics 
 Backformation host 
 Blends onomatopoiec word 
 Clipping proclitics 
 Clitics word manufacture 
 Coinage zero derivation
Terms concerning the interaction ofmorphology 
and phonology 
 Morphophonemics morphophonology
 Words can be divided into word classes. 
 We can broadly distinguish lexical from function 
words. 
 The major word classes in lexical words are nouns, 
verbs, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs.
Thank You Very 
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Morphology

  • 1. Directed by : #Shovalina Helka #Weni Siti Anantasari #Elita Angela
  • 2. The Analysis of Word Structure…
  • 3.  In Lingustics, morphology is the identification, analysis, and description of the structure of a given language and other linguistic units, refer to the part of the grammar that is concerned with words and word formation. As we will see, the study of morphology offers important insights into how language works, revealing the need for different categories of words, the presence of word-internal structure and the existence of operations that create and modify words in various ways.
  • 4.  Words and Word Structure  Derivation  Compounding  Inflection  Other Morphological Phenomena  Morphophonemics
  • 5.
  • 6.  Free and Bound Morpheme Free morpheme is a morpheme that can be a word by itself, whereas bound morpheme is a morpheme that must be attached to another element  Allomorphs Allomorphs is the variant form of a morpheme. The morpheme used to express indefiniteness in English has two allomorphs -an before a word that begins with a vowels sound and -a before a word that begins with a consonant sound. Example: an apple a table an ice a book … etc
  • 7. Words can be divided into two, the simple words and complex words. Words consisting of one or more morpheme: One Two Three More than trhree And Girl Girl-s Hunt Hunt-er Hunt-er-s Act Act-ive Act-iv-ate Re-act-iv-ate
  • 8.  Roots and Affixes Complex words typically consist of a root morpheme and one or more affixes.  Bases Example: A base is the form to which an affix is added. V V A Af Af Black en ed N A N V Af Af A N Af teach er un kind book s
  • 9. Is an affixional process that forms a word with a meaning and / or category distinct from that of its base.
  • 10.  Some English Derivational Affixes A partial list of English derivational affixes, along with information about the catagory of their usual base and of the resulting new word.  Complex Derivation N V A V Af Af Af Act ive ate ion
  • 11. Affix Change Example Suffixes -able V A Fix-able -ment V N Protect-ion -ful N A Treat-ment -ize1 N V Hope-ful -ish A N Vapor-ize -ate A V Tall-ish -ly A Adv Activ-ate -ness A N Slow-ly Preffixes ex- N N Ex-wife re- V V Re-state in- A A In-complete
  • 12. The combination of two already existent words. With very few exceptions, the resulting compound words is a noun, a verb, or an adjective.
  • 13. Noun Compounds Verb Compounds Adjective Compounds N V A N N N V N A Fire Engine Spoon Feed Nation Wide Oil Well Steam Roll Sky Blue Compounds Non-Compounds Greenhouse (a glass-enclosed garden) green house (a house painted green) Blackboard (a chalkboard) black board (a board that is black)
  • 14. The modification of a word’s form to indicate grammatical information of various shorts.
  • 15.  For nouns, verbs and adjectives the set of inflected forms often help us identify the word class ƒ E.g. noun ‘cat’: singular cat, plural cats  Plural form (only for count nouns, i.e. nouns denoting things that can be counted like cats, e not mass terms such as water) ƒ cats, criteria, knives, teeth, sheep
  • 16. Regular verbs walk walks sing sing Irregular verbs walking walked singing sang
  • 17.  Adjective comparative superlative Green greener greenest Happy happier happiest  However, some adjectives do not take these endings: curious more curious, most curious foolish more foolish, most foolish
  • 18.  Adverbs can often be recognized as being derived from adjectives by adding –ly (curiously, foolishly)  But they don’t have any other regular forms and are not inflected themselves  Prepositions don’t take any special form and don’t inflect  You can use, High Tone is assosiated with the past tense, and low tone with the future.
  • 19. 1. Cliticization 2. Conversion 3. Clipping 4. Blends 5. Backformation 6. Acronyms 7. Other sources of new words
  • 20.  Some morphomes behave like words in terms of their meaning and function, but are unable to stand alone as independent forms for phonological reasons. (‘m for am, ‘s for is, and ‘re for are)  Example: I’m leaving now Mary’s going to succeed They’re her now
  • 21.  Conversion is process that assigns an already existing word to a new syntatic category. Even though it does not add an affix, conversion is often considered to be a type of derivation because of the change in category and meaning that it brings. V derived from N N derived from V V derived from A Ink ( a contract) ( a long) run Dirty (a shirt) Butter (the bread) (a hot) drink Empty (the box Ship (the package) (a pleasant) drive Better (the old score)
  • 22.  Clipping is a process that shortens a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables. Clipping is especially popular in the speech of students yielded forms like prof for proffesor, phys-ed for phsycal education, poli-sci for political science, and burger for hamburger.  Blends are words that are created from nonmorphemic parts of two already exsisting items, usually the first part of one and the final part of the other. Familiar examples include brunch from breakfast and lunch, smog from smoke and fog, spam from spiced and ham, telothon from marathon, aerobicis from aerobics and excercise.... etc.
  • 23.  Backformation is a process that creates a new word by removing a real or suposed affix from another word in the language. Other backformation in English include enthuse from enthusiasm, donate from donation, orient or orientate from orientation, and self-destruct from self-destruction. Original word Misanalysis Verb formed by backformation Editor Edit + or Edit Peddler Peddle + er Peddle Swindler Swindle + er Swindle
  • 24.  Acronyms are formed by talking the initial letters of (some or all) the words in a phrase or title and pronouncing them as a word.  Onomotopoeia across languages: English Japanese Tagalog Cock-a-doddle-doo Kokekokko Kuk-kukaok Meow Nyaa Nglyaw Chirp Pii-pii Tiririt
  • 25.  Sometimes a word may be created from scratch. Called word manufacture or coinage, this phonemenon is especially common in the case of product names, include Kodak, Orlon, and Teflon. Word Name of the person Watt James Watt (late 19th-century scientist) Curie Marie and pierre curie (early 20th-century scientist) Fahrenheit Gabriel fahrenheit (18th-century scientist)
  • 26. The chapter has focused on the structure and formation of word in human language. Many words consist of smaller formative elements, called morphonemes. The two basic types of word formation in English are deruvation and compounding.
  • 27. General terms  Allomorphs lexicon  Bound morpheme morpheme  Complex words morphology  Free form simple word  Free morpheme word
  • 28. General terms concerning morphologycal analysis  Affixes root  Base suffix  Infixes tiers  Lexical category trees  Prefix word-based (morphology)
  • 29. Terms concerning derivation and compounding  Class 1 affixes endocentric compounds  Class 2 affixes exocentric compunds  Compound word head  Compounding incorporation
  • 30. Terms concerning inflection  Ablaut partial reduplication  Agreement partial suppletion  Case productivity  Concetenative (morphology) reduplication  Full reduplication stem  Inflection suppletion  Internal change umlaut
  • 31. Other kinds of morphologycal phenomena  Acronyms enclitics  Backformation host  Blends onomatopoiec word  Clipping proclitics  Clitics word manufacture  Coinage zero derivation
  • 32. Terms concerning the interaction ofmorphology and phonology  Morphophonemics morphophonology
  • 33.  Words can be divided into word classes.  We can broadly distinguish lexical from function words.  The major word classes in lexical words are nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs.