morphology : the structure of words · morphology •morphology deals with the syntax/the...

MORPHOLOGY : THE GRAMMAR OF WORDS By: Faizal Risdianto, S.S,M.Hum

http://pakfaizal.online/

http://pakfaizal.com/

faizrisd@gmail.com

“Morphology” Kia hai?

•1. the study of internal word

structure.

•2. the grammar of words.

•3. the study of the way

morpheme formed/transformed

to be a word.

Word formation=word process

Is this true? :D

Is this true? :D

•BOXING

•BOX=KOTAK

•BOXING=MENGKOTAK?

“Port” means “to carry” in Latin

IS THIS TRUE? :D

MORPHEMIC CUTTING&ANALYSIS

WORD TREE DIAGRAM

THE LONGEST WORD IN ENGLISH

MORPHOLOGY

• Morphology deals with the syntax/the grammar/the structure of complex words and parts of words, also called morphemes, as well as with the semantics of their lexical meanings.

• Understanding how words are formed and what semantic properties they convey through their forms enables human beings to easily recognize individual words and their meanings in discourse.

• Isleptfortenhoursyesterday.

• Youneverwalkalone.

• Islamneverdies.

• Thefutureofdayspast.

CAN YOU READ THIS? :D

A. FROM PHONEME TO MORPHEME

• A phonemic analysis is an essential part of any full

description of the language; but it fails to give complete

analysis. No matter how far this line of study is pursued or

achieved, nothing is revealed about the meanings of

utterances in the language. Yet the social function of any

language is to carry information from the speaker to

hearer. Without this, speech would probably not exist.

A phonological study of language, no matter how

detailed, can tell us nothing about meanings, because

the phonemes themselves have no direct connection

with the content.

They are merely the lingual unit which the speaker

and hearer know the morphemes. For any further

study of language, the morphemes and combinations

of morphemes must be examined.

B. WHAT IS A MORPHEME?

• “The smallest syntactic unit in language that carries

meaning, which is used to form a word “is called a “morpheme”. It may be composed of one sound or two sounds, or several sounds. The size of unit of the unit is not important. What is important is that the unit should have meaning and that we should not be able to break it down into smaller units of meaning.

• For example, the word “cats” is composed of two units: “cat” +”s”; the first unit refers to the animal; the second unit refers to the number of animals (more than one). Now, the word “cat” itself cannot be broken down further; “at” itself has a meaning of course; but the meaning of “cat” is not made up of “c” (phoneme) or : “/k/+at”.

• The other instance: the word “loved”. This is also composed of two units; “love+d”; the first unit refers to the feeling; the second unit refers to time (past tense). But not all “d” sounds (phonemes) have this meaning: in the word “dinner”, we have one unit with meaning. The meaning of the word “dinner” comes from the whole unit and not from “d+inner”.

• Each unit, then, that carries meaning in a language is a “morpheme”. “The study of the way phonemes are combined into morphemes and morphemes into words” is called “morphology” or “morphemics”. Thus “morphology” or “morphemics” as a sub branch of linguistics deals with the internal structure of word-forms.

UNTOUCHABLES=UN+TOUCH+ABLE+S

• The basic units of analysis recognized in morphology are

morphemes. Let us consider another unique instance.

The word form of “untouchables” can be segmented or

broken down to show its constituent elements:

“Un+touch+able+s”. Each of these units or segments has

its own form (or set of forms), its own meanings, and its

own distribution.

• Thus, “un-“has the fixed phonological form /n/, a meaning of negation, and recurs in words like “unavailable”, “unbelievable”, “undone”; whereas, the word “touch” has a fixed phonological form and a fixed meaning, and recurs in word-forms like “touched” and “touches”; the suffix “-able” sometimes occurs in words like “advisable”, “comparable”, “debatable”, marketable” etc. “the “s” has a range of phonetic forms (/s, z, iz/) but a constant meaning of plurality, and recurs in words like “cats”, “boys”, “fishes”. (this is what do we called “Allomorph”)

• Then, then segments of “un”, “touch”, “able”, “s” can be further subdivided into smaller segments which function in the same kind of way as they do; each of them represents a “morpheme”.

C. RECOGNITION OF MORPHEME.

• A linguist identifies morphemes by comparing a wide

variety of utterances. He looks for utterances which are

partially the same:

• Even in speech we can recognize that words are made up

of parts which have meaning and which can be used in

different words. Consider such words as:

• Apart from elements such as “happy”, “loud”, “slow”,

“quick”, “home”, “dog”, which we recognize as full words,

we can also isolate elements as “-ness”, “-ly”, “-s”.

• We do not recognize these words but we can see how

they are used as units to build the words in the right

column. The words in the left column above consist of one

morpheme each, since we cannot isolate any units within

these words; each of itself constitutes a homogenous unit.

The words in the right column, however, are made up of

more than one on such unit.

• We have already recognized “-ness”, “-ly”, and “-s” as

units of word formation but we can see that they do not

constitute words in the same way as the units on the left.

This distinction tells us why morphemes are usually

divided into two categories; “free morphemes” and “bound

morphemes”.

• Not all morphemes are easily segmentable as these

examples. But the identification of morphemes is done

entirely by means of this one basic technique – the

comparison of partially similar utterance.

Morpho-chart

Free and Bound Morpheme

• Analysis at a morphological level is concerned with

structural elements of meaning called morphemes. Morphemes are classified into two types:

• Free Morphemes: girl, boy, mother, etc. These are words with a complete meaning, so they can stand alone as an independent word in a sentence.

Bound Morphemes: These are lexical items incorporated into a word as a dependent part. They cannot stand alone, but must be connected to another morpheme.

Bound morphemes operates in the connection processes by means of derivation, inflection, and compounding.

DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY

• Derivation is concerned with the way morphemes are connected to existing lexical forms as affixes.

• We distinguish affixes in two principal types:

• 1. Prefixes - attached at the beginning of a lexical item or base-morpheme – ex: un-, pre-, post-, dis, im-, etc.

• 2. Suffixes – attached at the end of a lexical item ex: -age, -ing, -ful, -able, -ness, -hood, -ly, etc.

Morphemes chart

ELEMENTS OF MORPHEME

Morphs, Morpheme +Allomorphs

EXAMPLES OF MORPHOLOGICAL

DERIVATION

• a. Lexical item (free morpheme): like (verb)=piacere

+ prefix (bound morpheme) dis-

= dislike (verb) = detestare;

• b. Lexical item: like (verbo)= piacere

+ suffix –able = likeable (agg)= simpatico

+ prefix un- =unlikeable (agg)= antipatico

+ suffix –ness = unlikeableness (sost)= antipatia

• 3. Lexical item: like (agg)= simile

+ prefix un- = unlike (agg)= dissimile

+ suffix –ness = unlikeness (sost) = dissimilarità;

• 4. Lexical item: like (agg)= simile

+ suffix –ly = likely (agg)= probabile e

(avv) probabilmente

+ suffix –hood =likelihood (sost)= probabilità

+ prefix un- =unlikelihood (sost)= improbabilità.

Derivational affixes can cause semantic change:

Prefix pre- means before; post- means after; un- means not, re- means again.

Prefix = fixed before; Unhappy = not happy = sad; Retell = tell again.

Prefix de- added to a verb conveys a sense of subtraction; dis- and un- have a sense of negativity.

To decompose; to defame; to uncover; to discover.

INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY

• Inflection is a morphological process that adapts existing

words so that they function effectively in sentences

without changing the category of the base morpheme.

English has the following inflectional suffixes:

VERB INFLECTIONAL SUFFIXES

• 1. The suffix –s functions in the Present Simple as the third person marking of the verb : to work – he work-s

• 2. The suffix –ed functions in the past simple as the past tense marker in regular verbs: to love – lov-ed

• 3. The suffixes –ed (regular verbs) and –en (for some regular verbs) function in the marking of the past partciple and, in general, in the marking of the perfect aspect:

To study studied studied / To eat ate eaten

• 4. The suffix –ing functions in the marking of the present participle, the gerund and in the marking of the continuous aspect: To eat – eating / To study - studying

NOUN INFLECTIONAL SUFFIXES

• 5. The suffix –s functions in the marking of the plural of

nouns: dog – dogs

• 6. The suffix –s functions as a possessive marker (saxon

genitive): Laura – Laura’s book.

ADJECTIVE INFLECTIONAL SUFFIXES

7. The suffix –er functions as comparative marker: quick –

quicker

8. The suffix –est functions as superlative marker: quick -

quickest

Derivational affixes can mark category

change • The derivational suffix –able derives an adjective

from a verb, implying an ability with a passive

relation with its stem:

Eatable means able to be eaten

(commestibile), not able to eat.

• Suffix –er derives a noun from a verb, indicating a

human agent or an inanimate instrument:

Speaker (parlante o amplificatore); Baker

(fornaio);

• The suffixes –ful and –less derives an adjective from a

noun.

• -ful indicates addiction, abundance;

• -less indicates subtraction, reduction:

careful = full of care

careless = with no care

• The suffixes –ure and –age derive e noun from a verb:

To fail – failure = fallire/fallimento

To marry – marriage = sposare/matrimonio

• The suffix –hood derives an abstract noun from a concrete noun, the suffix –ness derives an abstract nounfrom an adjective.

Child – childhood = bambino/infanzia

Good – goodness = buono/bontà

• The suffix –ly derives an adverb from an adjective (but

also adjs can end in –ly):

Quick – quickly

Easy – easily

but: lonely (adjective)

• The suffix –ing derives a noun from a verb:

To write – writing.

Root, base and stem

•Thank You • faizrisd@gmail.com

• http://pakfaizal.online/