Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Morphology
- Branch
of
linguistics
- Investigates
- Words
- Internal
structure
- Through the study of
- Morphemes
- The smallest
linguistic pieces with
a grammatical
function
- morph
- the phonological
realization of a
morpheme
- Stem
- base morpheme to
wich another piece is
attached
- simple or root
- the core of the word
- only morphological simple units
- complex
- How
they are
formed
- Word Formation Process
- Unpredictable,
Blending and
Acronyms
- "oddities"
- Clipping
- cutting off
the
beggining,
end or both
- lab
- prof
- dorm
- Blending
- fusion of 2 words
- gasohol =
gasoline +
alcohol
- Acronyms
- derived
from the
initials
of
several
wors
- UFO
- SALT
- Affixation,
compounding,
conversion
- Affixation
- Prefixes
- Before a base
- Suffixes
- After a base
- Forming
nouns
- dom - kingdom
- tion - categorization
- ncy - excellency
- Forming
verbs
- ify, ize - purify, colonize
- en - shortne, widen.
- Forming
adjectives
- nal - educational
- able, less - tireless, believable
- sh - greenish
- Infixes
- Do not occur
- strings that
attaches in
the middle
- Circumfixes
- 2 parts
- attaches to the fornt
- attaches to the back
- Compounding
- verbs
- formed by back formation
- Noun + verb - sky-dive
- verb + verb - freezy-dry
- adjective + verb = soft-land
- particle + verb = over-look
- adjective + noun = bad-mouth
- noun + noun = breath-test
- adjectives
- noun + adjective = space-born
- verb + adjective = fail-safe
- verb + noun = turn-key
- adjective + adjective= bitter-sweet
- nouns
- exocentric
- the compound
is not a
hyponiym of
the
grammatical
head
- endocentric
- the compound
is a hyponym
of the
grammatical
head
- appositival
- the
compound is a
hyponym of
both
- copulative
- the 2 elements
separate entities
combined to refer to
one
- not very common
- Conversion
- the item changes its
word class without the
addition of an affiix
- dirty - to dirty
- Others
- Borrowing
- Borrowed
words form
another
language
- Chocolate
- Inflexion
- Modified words
to make
grmmatical
subclasses
- work - worked
- does not change the
grammatical category
- Coinage
- Invented
words
- aspirin, kleenex
- Derivation
- To change
fron one
category to
another (verbs to nouns)
- addition
of an affix
- happiness
- Approaches
- Analytic
- breaking words down
- uses
- to know the
meaning of read or
heard new complex
words
- Principles
- same form = same meaning
- two forms
are
instances of
the same
morpheme
- allomorphs
- seats ,
shades,
fish
- not all
morphemes
are
segmental
- "ablaut":
vowel
alternation
- a morpheme may have
zero as one of its
allomorphs provided it
has a non zero
allomorph
- fish - frogs
- Synthetic
- theory construction
- uses
- to create new
forms from
pre-existing
pieces
- The mental system involved
in word formation or to the
branch of linguistics that
deals with words, the
internal structure and how
they are formed