Much of the terminology is commonly used in all
morphological studies and helps to place word
formation in its broader framework. And in
some cases, they pose problems for general
linguistic theory.
Words and
word-formation
Word formation refers to the ways in wich
new words are formed on the basis of
other words
Examples of inflection, derivation and compounding
inflectional paradigm=
parl´o - I speak
derivational
paradigm=
nation,
nation´hood
compounding or composition=
oil-paper
Word, word-form, lexeme
A lexeme is defined as a set of
inflected word forms that are
differentiated by their inflectional
properties.
Morpheme, morph, allomorph, formative
A morpheme may be defined as
the minimal unit of grammatical
analysis
Morphology as a sub-branch of
linguistics deals with the internal
structure of word-forms.
An allomorph is a phonetically, lexically or
grammatical ly conditioned member of a set of
morphs representing a particular morpheme.
A morph can be defined as a segment
of a word-form which represents a
particular morpheme
A formative is defined as a distributional
segment of a word-form independent of
whether or not it is also a morph.
Bound, free
Base words that can stand alone (such
as “book”) are known as free bases
Inflection, derivation
Inflection is the morphological system for
creating word forms, while derivation is one
of the morphological systems for creating
new words.
Class-maintaining, class-changing
Derivation: is concerned with the formation of new
lexemes by affixation.
Classmaintaining
derivation
Class-changing
derivation
Ej: -ly + king (noun) = kingly
(Adjective)
Ej: -dom + king (noun) =
kingdom (noun)
Conversion
consists of forming a word from another word
that is formally identical but categorically
different without adding a morphological
exponent