Research Paper
JORDAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
A constituent college of st. of Augustine University of Tanzania
(SAUT)
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
P.O BOX 1878, Morogoro-Tanzania.
COURSE; ENGLISH STRUCTURE
CODE; LL 214
DEPARTMENT; ENGLISH
SUBMITTED BY; GERALD, RICHARD
REGISTRATION NUMBER; 2011/ 0237
SUBMITTED TO; MADAM MARY JIBREA
TASK: THE RELEVANCES OF ENGLISH SRUCTURE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Structure of English
We can study the English structure to relate to the English language in a variety of ways. For example, we can study classes of words (parts of speech), meanings of words, with or without considering changes of meaning (semantics), how words are organized in relation to each other and in larger constructions (syntax), how words are formed from smaller meaningful units (morphology), the sounds of words (perception and pronunciation or articulation), and how they form patterns of knowledge in the speaker's mind (phonetics and phonology) and how standardized written forms represent words (orthography). Since this website is primarily devoted to the exploration of English through its words, the focus in this website is on morphology (word structure) and other aspects of words, such as etymology, lexical semantic change, word usage, lexical types of words, and words marking specific linguistic varieties.
Morphology
This is the study of the structure of words. The name comes from Greek morphos (=shape or form). The smallest units of meaning may be whole simple words (e.g. man, run, big) or parts of complex words (e.g. un-, -faith- and -ful in unfaithful) which are called morphemes.
Some morphemes, such as faith in un-faith-full or dream in dream-ing can stand alone as words which make sense. These are known as free morphemes. Other morphemes, such as prefixes and suffixes (collectively called affixes), cannot stand alone - they need to be part of a complex word to make sense. Examples are dis- in dis-miss, dis-pute or dis-grace,
A constituent college of st. of Augustine University of Tanzania
(SAUT)
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
P.O BOX 1878, Morogoro-Tanzania.
COURSE; ENGLISH STRUCTURE
CODE; LL 214
DEPARTMENT; ENGLISH
SUBMITTED BY; GERALD, RICHARD
REGISTRATION NUMBER; 2011/ 0237
SUBMITTED TO; MADAM MARY JIBREA
TASK: THE RELEVANCES OF ENGLISH SRUCTURE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Structure of English
We can study the English structure to relate to the English language in a variety of ways. For example, we can study classes of words (parts of speech), meanings of words, with or without considering changes of meaning (semantics), how words are organized in relation to each other and in larger constructions (syntax), how words are formed from smaller meaningful units (morphology), the sounds of words (perception and pronunciation or articulation), and how they form patterns of knowledge in the speaker's mind (phonetics and phonology) and how standardized written forms represent words (orthography). Since this website is primarily devoted to the exploration of English through its words, the focus in this website is on morphology (word structure) and other aspects of words, such as etymology, lexical semantic change, word usage, lexical types of words, and words marking specific linguistic varieties.
Morphology
This is the study of the structure of words. The name comes from Greek morphos (=shape or form). The smallest units of meaning may be whole simple words (e.g. man, run, big) or parts of complex words (e.g. un-, -faith- and -ful in unfaithful) which are called morphemes.
Some morphemes, such as faith in un-faith-full or dream in dream-ing can stand alone as words which make sense. These are known as free morphemes. Other morphemes, such as prefixes and suffixes (collectively called affixes), cannot stand alone - they need to be part of a complex word to make sense. Examples are dis- in dis-miss, dis-pute or dis-grace,