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Morphology
study of word formation patterns
how should a word be…
Morphology
study of word formation patterns
how should a word be determines? -> divide words into smaller unitys, seperate sentances in eahc small units
What is a word
dependent on the linguistic level analyzed (phonological, morphological,syntactic)
Words are in our lexicon -> speaker's mental dictionary, contains the information of words
Morpheme
- smallest units of meanings
- smallest indivisual meaningful parts of words
- morpheme - eye, bleed, book, eye
- can connect other units to make another type of meaning of the word
- morphemes - book-end-s, act-iv-ate
- morphemes: re-act-iv-ate
Morphologiclally Complex -> words with more than one morphome
morphologically simple -> words with only one morpheme
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BASIC TYPES
Free Morpheme -> can be a word by itself
ex: eye, bleed, boo, act, the words that can stand alone as a word
Bound Morpheme -> must be attached to another element
ex: bleed-ing, book-s, act-ive... words that need to be attached to others
Morphological Typology
How much complexity does it have in a word
Analytic -> isolating language so each morpheme is its own word
synthetic -> single sentence composed of multiple morphome
Lexical Internal Structure
-> parts of speech, gramattical categories
Defined by core meaning and functions
Nouns - people and things
verb - actions, sensations
adjectives - properties of nouns
adverbs - properties of verbs
Bound morpheme - tends to be affix
Root - premorphemes, morephemes that belong to lexical category and carry the major component of a word's meaning
(ex: Im-"POLITE" or "PEN"s)
Affix
Prefix: beginning of the word (ex: "IM"-Polite, "MIS" understand)
Suffex: at the end of the word (ex: pen"S", danc"ING")
Infix -> attatches within the root
"b"IN"ili ‘bought, k"IN"uha ‘got’"
Circumfix
-> attatches after before and after the root
"KA"bata"AN" ‘youth, "KA"gur"AN" ‘faculty’
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