Morphology: Affix and Inflectional Morphemes
University of Algiers
Department of English
Magister Ling-did
Descriptive Linguistics
Presentation on
Morphology
Prepared by: Supervised by:
Mohamed Al-Elyani Dr. Hamitouch
Academic Year: 2010/2011
Outline: I. Introduction: II. Defining the key concepts:
II.1 Morphology
II.2 Morphemes III. Types of Morphemes
III.1 Lexical and Functional morphemes III.2 Derivational and inflectional morphemes IV. Morphological description V. Problems in morphological description VI. Conclusion VII. References:
Morphology
According to George Yule, morphology means '' The study of forms. It investigates basic forms in language''. This terms was originally used in biology, but since the middle of nineteenth century, has also been used to describe the type of identification, analysis and description of the structure of morphemes and other units of meaning in a language like words, affixes, and parts of speech, intonation, stress, implied context.
Morphemes
We do not actually have to go to other languages to discover that ''word forms'' may consist of a number of elements. We can recognize that English word forms such as talks, talker, talked and talking consist of one element talk, and a number of other elements such as –s, -er, -ed and –ing. All these elements are described as morphemes.
What is morpheme?
Morpheme is a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. Units of grammatical function include forms used to indicate past tense or plural, for example.
As Geoffery Finch (1998) puts it :
"Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning, and the smallest units of grammatical analysis in the language. It's important not to confuse them with syllables, which are units of sound, and essentially meaningless." Geoffery Finch (1998: 183)
In the sentence The police reopened the
Department of English
Magister Ling-did
Descriptive Linguistics
Presentation on
Morphology
Prepared by: Supervised by:
Mohamed Al-Elyani Dr. Hamitouch
Academic Year: 2010/2011
Outline: I. Introduction: II. Defining the key concepts:
II.1 Morphology
II.2 Morphemes III. Types of Morphemes
III.1 Lexical and Functional morphemes III.2 Derivational and inflectional morphemes IV. Morphological description V. Problems in morphological description VI. Conclusion VII. References:
Morphology
According to George Yule, morphology means '' The study of forms. It investigates basic forms in language''. This terms was originally used in biology, but since the middle of nineteenth century, has also been used to describe the type of identification, analysis and description of the structure of morphemes and other units of meaning in a language like words, affixes, and parts of speech, intonation, stress, implied context.
Morphemes
We do not actually have to go to other languages to discover that ''word forms'' may consist of a number of elements. We can recognize that English word forms such as talks, talker, talked and talking consist of one element talk, and a number of other elements such as –s, -er, -ed and –ing. All these elements are described as morphemes.
What is morpheme?
Morpheme is a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. Units of grammatical function include forms used to indicate past tense or plural, for example.
As Geoffery Finch (1998) puts it :
"Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning, and the smallest units of grammatical analysis in the language. It's important not to confuse them with syllables, which are units of sound, and essentially meaningless." Geoffery Finch (1998: 183)
In the sentence The police reopened the
References: * Bailey , Madden and Krashen (1974), The Morpheme Studies, Milon. * Bas Aarts & April Mcmation (eds) (2006), The Handbook of English Linguistics, Blackwell Publishing. * Charles F. Meyer (2009, Introducing English Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics * Geoffery Finch (1998), How to study linguistics, China: Palgrave. * George Yule (2010, 4th ed), the Study of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Widdowson H.D 1996, Intoduction to Language study: Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press