Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Morphology
- The study of the internal structure of words and their
formation
- Word: A unit of language that native speakers can identify
- Morphemes
- MORPHEMES: the smallest unit of
meaning
- Root: primary lexical unit of a word
- Free: stand alone as words.
Ex.: pain, pen, case
- Bound: attached to other morphemes.
Ex.: bio, geo (as in biology, geography)
- Affixes: attached to the root (always
bound)
- By position
- Prefix: before the root. Ex.: PREview, Review, ANTIbiotic
- Suffix: after the root. Ex. : readER, practicAL, freeDOM
- Infix: inside the root. Ex. (from Bontoc. There are no
infixes in English o Spanish): fikas (strong), fUMikas (to
be strong), kilad (red) kUMilad (to be red)
- Circumfix: both before and after the root. Ex. (from
German. There are no circumfixes in English or
Spanish): lieb (to love), GEliebT (past participle of
love)
- By function
- Derivational: create new words: ly, re, ex, ful
(as in generalLY, REcreate, EX-wife, fruitFUL)
- Inflectional: offer grammar information: ing,
est, s, ed (as in beING, highEST, penS,
workED)
- Derivation (creation of
new words)
- Major processes
- Derivation: adding prefixes.
Ex DIShonest, honestY
- Compounding: two free
morphemes. Ex.
CLASSROOM
- Minor processes
- Null affixation (no
affixes): to stay (verb),
a stay (noun)
- Reduplication: (from Motu)
mahutamahuta (to sleep
constantly. Mahuta means to
sleep)
- Blend: Spanglish (from
Spanish and English)
- Abbreviation
- Alphabetism:
CIA, FBI, CSI
- Stub-compound:
Sci-fi
- Acronym:
AIDS; NASA, Radar
- Clipping:
bike, flu, vet
- Backformation: Enthuse
(from enthusiasm)
- Borrowing: banana (from Africa)
- Coinage: Xerox
- Inflection (same word,
other functions)
- Affixation: adding affixes.
Ex.: streetS (plurality),
listenED (past tense
- Reduplication: duplicating
morphemes. Ex.:kamina (girl),
kaminakamina (girls) (from Warlpin)
- Ablaut: replacement of vowel
sound. Ex. plural of foot (feet)
- Partial Suppletion: partial replacement.
Ex.: past tense of send (sent)
- Suppletion: total replacement. Ex.
past tense of go (went)
- Types of
words
- Simple: one free morpheme. Ex.:
kind.
- Compound: Two free morphemes. Ex.:
book-case (bookcase)
- Complex: At least one bound morpheme.
Ex.: kind-ly (kindly)
- Compound-complex: at least one bound morpheme
and two free morphemes. Ex.: book-case-s
(bookcases)