The Chinese University of Hong Kong MA in English Language Teaching ETM6702 Morphology and Syntax for English Language Teaching Name: Chan Lester Theodore Student ID: 05412430 Date: 31st October 2005 Assignment 1 Discuss the processes by which new words come into a language. Give examples to support each process. New words come into a language by different means. Many of them are inherited from early stages of the language. Others are created by considering the morphemes
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The Relevance of English Morphology and Syntax in Mastering English as English Teacher To be a good English teacher‚ we have to firstly master all aspects of that language‚ including how to form a new word as discussed in morphology and how to make a correct and meaningful sentence as discussed in syntax. Morphology and syntax are two branches of linguistics. Referring to Matthews (1991: 3)‚ morphology is a term for that branch of linguistics which is concerned with the “forms of words” in different
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LEARNING ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY FOR EFL LEARNERS Generally‚ we can mention that EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners are those who learn English tend to achieve the particular purpose. For example‚ they can use English when travelling or to communicate with other people from whatever country‚ who also speak English. We can classify the students of English department into EFL learners‚ too. So‚ they need to be able to speak English well. One of the foremost aspect in speaking English is we have
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Morphology ‘If language was just a random collection of words‚ you couldn’t acquire it‚ you couldn’t learn it and you’d be imprisoned in the here and now because you couldn’t talk about what was‚ what might be and what will be…’ You couldn’t construct complete and coherent texts….you’d be in a ‘me Tarzan – you Jane’ situation‚ swinging from the wordtrees‚ pointing at things with little labels on them to try and make your partner understand.’ The myths of grammar (Crystal 2004)
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MORPHOLOGY Ampalaya is a climbing vine‚ nearly or quite smooth‚ annual vine. Tendrils are simple‚ up to 20 centimeters long. Leaves are 2.5 to 10 centimeters in diameter‚ cut nearly to the base into 5 to 7 lobes‚ oblong-ovate‚ variously toothed‚ and heart-shaped at the base. Male flower is about 12 millimeters long‚ and is peduncle‚ with a rounded‚ green‚ and about 1 centimeter long bract approximately at the middle. Female flower is yellow flower‚ about 15 millimeters long‚ long-stalked with pair
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contains the English or Russian or Macedonian language. The words of a language can be listed in a dictionary‚ but not all the sentences‚ and a language consists of these sentences as well as words. Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of “possible” sentences. These rules comprise the grammar of a language‚ which is learned when you “acquire” the language and includes the sound system (the phonology)‚ forming of words (the morphology)‚ how words may
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THE CHILD’S LEARNING OF ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY JEAN BERKO In this study1 we set out to discover what is learned by children exposed to English morphology. To test for knowledge of morphological rules‚ we use nonsense materials. We know that if the subject can supply the correct plural ending‚ for instance‚ to a noun we have made up‚ he has internalized a working system of the plural allomorphs in English‚ and is able to generalize to new cases and select the right form. If a child knows that the
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What is Morphology? Morphology – the internal structure of words The term morphology is Greek and is a makeup of morph- meaning ’shape‚ form’‚ and -ology which means ’the study of something’. The term is used not only in linguistics but also in biology as the scientific study of forms and structure of animals and plants‚ and in geology as the study of formation and evolution of rocks and land forms. We are going to stick to morphology in linguistics‚ as the scientific study of forms and structure
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BA-Aufbaumodul: Levels of Linguistic Analysis I – Words and Sentences‚ Structure and Meaning (Mi 10-12; R. 209) Florian Haas Tel.: 838-72314 flohaas@zedat.fu-berlin.de Handout 2: Morphological analysis 1. Morpheme vs morph • • • The morpheme is defined as the smallest meaningful unit in a language disagreement and/or inconsistency concerning the exact characterization (i) a formal unit (ii) an abstraction from the concrete forms the term ‘morph’ only refers to (i) 2. Morphological
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ARA012: Course Guide NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE CODE : ARA 012 COURSE TITLE:ARABIC MORPHOLOGY 1 ARA012: Course Guide COURSE GUIDE NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE CODE: ARA 012 COURSE TITLE: ARABIC MORPHOLOGY COURSE DEVELOPER/ WRITER: Prof. M.A. Bidmos School of Arts and Social Sciences National Open University of Nigeria Victoria Island Lagos. COURSE EDITOR/ PROGRAMME /LEADER Prof. A.F. Ahmed School of Arts and Social
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