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Morphology is the study of words and their internal structure and formation. It looks at morphemes, the smallest units of meaning, and how they combine to form words. There are two types of morphemes - free morphemes or lexemes which can stand alone as words, and bound morphemes or affixes which must be attached to other morphemes. Affixes that carry grammatical meaning are called inflectional affixes, while those with lexical meaning are used in word derivation to form new lexemes. Some major word formation processes in English are derivation, compounding, and conversion.
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- Morphs as the phonetic realization of morphemes. Allomorphs are variant forms of morphemes that do not change meaning.
- Examples are provided to illustrate different types of morphemes, morphs, and allomorphs in English words.
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Morphology is the study of word formation and internal structure. It examines the smallest units of meaning called morphemes, which can be free standing words or affixes. There are several approaches to morphology, but they generally analyze words as arrangements of morphemes or as transformations from word stems. Inflectional morphology creates word forms that express grammatical concepts like number, while derivational morphology forms new words.
Morphology
Morphology is the study of how words are formed from smaller meaningful units called morphemes. Morphemes are the smallest units of language that carry meaning or function. There are two types of morphemes: free morphemes, which can stand alone as words, and bound morphemes, which must be attached to other elements. Morphology examines the rules for combining morphemes, such as affixing prefixes and suffixes, to form new words. It also analyzes the relationship between word structure and meaning.
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This document discusses key concepts in morphology including:
1) Morphemes are the minimal units of meaning or grammatical function that can be free or bound. Free morphemes can stand alone as words while bound morphemes are attached to other forms.
2) Morphology analyzes the structure of words including prefixes, suffixes, and parts of words. It also distinguishes between lexical/functional and derivational/inflectional morphemes.
3) Morphological fusion refers to the degree to which an affix is phonologically joined to a stem, which correlates with how semantically relevant the affix is to the stem. Allomorphy describes phonological alternations in morphemes
Components of Language
Phonology is the study of the sound patterns of language, including how speech sounds are used to convey meaning. It looks at various aspects of sounds and sound combinations, including what sounds can go together to form syllables and differences between languages. Morphology is the study of words, their internal structure, and how new words are formed. It analyzes morphemes, the smallest units of meaning, including free and bound morphemes. Semantics is the study of meaning, including both the literal meaning of words and phrases as well as their connotative meanings. Syntax refers to the patterns and order of words within sentences to show relationships of meaning.
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This document discusses morphology and word formation. It defines morphology as the study of the internal structure of words. It discusses how words are formed through processes like affixation, compounding, reduplication, and alternation. It also describes the hierarchical structure of derived words. Different types of languages are discussed, including analytic, synthetic, agglutinative, fusional, and polysynthetic languages. The key morphological concepts of morphemes, affixes, stems, and lexical categories are explained. Finally, it outlines procedures for morphological analysis when studying a new language.
Lexicology as a science
Lexicology is the scientific study of words and vocabulary in a language. It examines words' origins, development, and current usage. Lexicology is closely related to other linguistic fields like phonetics, grammar, and stylistics. It studies words as part of a system, while lexicography focuses on individual words for dictionary purposes. There are two main approaches in lexicology - synchronic looks at vocabulary at a point in time, while diachronic examines changes over time. Methods of investigation include observation, classification of facts, generalization of rules, and verification. Contrastive analysis compares vocabulary between languages.
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WORD FORMATION
This document discusses word formation and morphology. It defines key terms like morpheme, word, stem, base, root, affix, and allomorph. It explains that morphology is the study of word formation and structure, including the combination of morphemes. The main processes of word formation are affixation (prefixation and suffixation), compounding, conversion, and reduplication. Prefixes and suffixes can be used to derive new words or change the grammatical form of words. Morphemes have different types and functions in the formation and structure of words.
Morphology and Word Formation in English
Morphology and word formation . It is a chapter about how words are formed and how their forma vary .
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What is morphology
- 1. What is morphology? Morphology comes from a Greek word meaning ‘shape’ or ‘form’ and is used in linguistics to denote the study of words, both with regard to their internal structure and their combination or formation to form new or larger units.
- 2. words ‘Word’ is a term in common everyday use but one which linguists cannot easily define. Linguists therefore prefer other terms, referring to morphs, morphemes and lexemes when talking about ‘words’.
- 3. Types of morpheme The free morphemes are generally also referred to as lexemes, and the bound ones as affixes. Affixes which come in front of a free morpheme are prefixes, and those which come after are suffixes.
- 4. Inflection Bound morphemes which carry grammatical (or functional) meaning are called inflectional affixes and their function is to create new forms of existing lexemes.
- 5. Derivation Other affixes (which can be prefixes or suffixes) have lexical meaning and are used to create new lexemes.
- 6. Other more productive word- formation processes Derivation is one of the three major (and most productive) types of word-formation processes visible in English. The other two most important ones are compounding and conversion.
- 7. Less productive word- formation processes Apart from these ‘big three’, there are further ways of expanding the lexicon, but none of them are terribly productive in English. These are: blending, clipping, back-formation, acronyms and initializes and all involve shortening the source lexeme in some way.
- 8. Word classes We tend to distinguish between open word classes, which include nouns, full verbs, adjectives and some adverbs, and more closed word classes to which pronouns, prepositions, determiners, modal (verb)s, auxiliaries, primary verbs, conjunctions, etc. belong.