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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