macbeth-hero or villain?
JOSHUA MQABUKO POLITECHNIC
ENGLISH SECTION
TOPIC: Morphology
Introduction
Like any other language English has structures. The structures are made up of component parts such as phonemes, morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, texts and discourse. Needless to say, parts of speech like nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions forms part of larger grammatical units.
Definition
Morphology is: a way of studying language(linguistics). about the way words are put together, their internal arrangement. part of linguistics that studies patterns of word formation within and across languages.
Morphology is the study of internal structure of words,(Haspelmath,200:1)
The structure and arrangement of words in a language
The geography of words (the horizontal arrangement of words in sentences)
The minimal part of an utterance and one of the best units of a language
The identification, analysis and description of the structure of a particular language in terms of :
Morphemes
Affixes
Parts of speech
Intonation and stress
Phoneme:
The smallest distinctive or contrastive unit of sound, in a particular language. Taking for instance two words beat and man, the consonant sounds /b/ and /m/ separate the two morphemes because they produce distinctive or contrastive sounds. So we can say: a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish two words.
The smallest meaningful unit in a word that cannot be further subdivided without altering its meaning.
Morpheme:
A word, word stem or affix
Usually produced by combining two or more sounds eg:
e.g. Man-----------word
Unman-------------affix
Man-----------------stem
A morpheme is a part of a language’s syntax or grammar
It is the smallest meaningful part of a word
Properties of a morpheme
It has a phonetic shape-----subject to phonetic transcription
It has meaning----------------including bound morphemes
It plays a major
ENGLISH SECTION
TOPIC: Morphology
Introduction
Like any other language English has structures. The structures are made up of component parts such as phonemes, morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, texts and discourse. Needless to say, parts of speech like nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions forms part of larger grammatical units.
Definition
Morphology is: a way of studying language(linguistics). about the way words are put together, their internal arrangement. part of linguistics that studies patterns of word formation within and across languages.
Morphology is the study of internal structure of words,(Haspelmath,200:1)
The structure and arrangement of words in a language
The geography of words (the horizontal arrangement of words in sentences)
The minimal part of an utterance and one of the best units of a language
The identification, analysis and description of the structure of a particular language in terms of :
Morphemes
Affixes
Parts of speech
Intonation and stress
Phoneme:
The smallest distinctive or contrastive unit of sound, in a particular language. Taking for instance two words beat and man, the consonant sounds /b/ and /m/ separate the two morphemes because they produce distinctive or contrastive sounds. So we can say: a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish two words.
The smallest meaningful unit in a word that cannot be further subdivided without altering its meaning.
Morpheme:
A word, word stem or affix
Usually produced by combining two or more sounds eg:
e.g. Man-----------word
Unman-------------affix
Man-----------------stem
A morpheme is a part of a language’s syntax or grammar
It is the smallest meaningful part of a word
Properties of a morpheme
It has a phonetic shape-----subject to phonetic transcription
It has meaning----------------including bound morphemes
It plays a major