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Morphology in linguistic
Prepared by : Munsif siyyal
Roll no : 2013-M.A-ELT-35
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Morphology
I. Introduction of the Morphology
II. Types of Morpheme
III. Summary
IV. The end
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Introduction
Morphology: The study of the structure of words & how words
are formed (from morphemes)
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Morpheme
Morpheme: The smallest unit of language that carries meaning (maybe a word or
not a word) A sound-meaning unit A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function The level of language at which sound and meaning combine
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Types of morpheme
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Basic types of morpheme
Free & bound morpheme Free morpheme lexical & functional morpheme can occur by itself, not attached to other morphemes Examples: girl, teach, book, class, the, of, etc. Two kinds 1) lexical morpheme (open class) N, Verb, Adj, Adv (content words) 2) functional morpheme (closed class) Pro, Prep, Conj, Art. (function words)
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Bound morpheme : Must be attached to another morpheme
Two kinds 1) Derivational morpheme: may change syntactic class
examples: -able, un-, re-, etc.
2) Inflectional morpheme:
Different forms of the same word
Only 8 kinds in English: -’s, -s (plural nouns), -ing, -ed/-en, -est, -er, -s
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Summary
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The End
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