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PAPER MORPHOLOGY
MORPHEMES
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This paper is submitted to fulfill the assignment of English Morphology
Guided by Hendrikus S.pd
Arranged by:
Name : Ropinus 2.01.11.0246
Edawati 2.01.11.
Class : Bahasa Inggris-3
ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM S-1
COLLEGE O TEFACHER’S TRAINING AND EDUCATION
STIKP PAMANE TALINO
Abstract
This paper explains of morphemes in studying English. In studying English, we must learn the grammatical structure of that language. The grammatical structure of English is very different from the grammatical structure of our language. In addition, the morphological process in English is also very important how to know well about morphemes. The people who are learning English need to know the English grammar and the English morphological process clearly.
Introduction
Language consists of two aspects namely form and meaning. In relation to meaning, the smallest meaningful unit in language is morpheme. Morpheme is defined as the smallest meaningful unit of a language (Lim Kiat Boey, 1975 : 37). Words are made up of morphemes. The word teachers, for example, consists of three meaningful units or morphemes, teach, –er, and –s. The morpheme teach forming the word teachers has the lexical meaning; the morpheme –er means the doer of teaching; the morpheme –s has plural meaning. We can identify the meaning of the morpheme teach although it stands alone but we cannot identify the meaning of morphemes –er and –s in isolation. We can identify the meaning of the morpheme –er and –s after they combine to the morpheme teach. The morphemes such as teach, book, go, and good which can meaningfully stand alone are called free morphemes while the morphemes such as –er and –s, which cannot meaningfully stand alone are called bound morphemes. Bound morphemes must be attached to free morphemes. Bound morphemes are also called affixes which can be classified into prefix, infix, and suffix. English only has two kinds of bound morphemes namely
MORPHEMES
PAPER
This paper is submitted to fulfill the assignment of English Morphology
Guided by Hendrikus S.pd
Arranged by:
Name : Ropinus 2.01.11.0246
Edawati 2.01.11.
Class : Bahasa Inggris-3
ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM S-1
COLLEGE O TEFACHER’S TRAINING AND EDUCATION
STIKP PAMANE TALINO
Abstract
This paper explains of morphemes in studying English. In studying English, we must learn the grammatical structure of that language. The grammatical structure of English is very different from the grammatical structure of our language. In addition, the morphological process in English is also very important how to know well about morphemes. The people who are learning English need to know the English grammar and the English morphological process clearly.
Introduction
Language consists of two aspects namely form and meaning. In relation to meaning, the smallest meaningful unit in language is morpheme. Morpheme is defined as the smallest meaningful unit of a language (Lim Kiat Boey, 1975 : 37). Words are made up of morphemes. The word teachers, for example, consists of three meaningful units or morphemes, teach, –er, and –s. The morpheme teach forming the word teachers has the lexical meaning; the morpheme –er means the doer of teaching; the morpheme –s has plural meaning. We can identify the meaning of the morpheme teach although it stands alone but we cannot identify the meaning of morphemes –er and –s in isolation. We can identify the meaning of the morpheme –er and –s after they combine to the morpheme teach. The morphemes such as teach, book, go, and good which can meaningfully stand alone are called free morphemes while the morphemes such as –er and –s, which cannot meaningfully stand alone are called bound morphemes. Bound morphemes must be attached to free morphemes. Bound morphemes are also called affixes which can be classified into prefix, infix, and suffix. English only has two kinds of bound morphemes namely
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