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
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Morphological rules for combining morphemes into words differ from the syntactic rules of a language‚ which determine how words are combined to form sentences; but there is an interesting relationship between morphology and syntax. In derivation morphology‚ we saw that certain aspects of morphology have syntactic implications--nouns can be derived from verbs‚ verbs from adjectives‚ adjectives from nouns‚ and so on. Sentences are combinations of morphemes. It is not always possible to assign
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A. What are these words in normal English script? Phonemic script English script 1. /naɪf / knife 2. / mɪɵɒləɗʒɪ / mythology 3. / aɪlənɗ / island 4. / kjʊə / cure 5. / Һjʊməres / humourous 6. / əkwaɪə / acquire 7. / krʌmz / crumbs 8. / ɪgzæmɪneɪʃən / examination 9. / juːniːk / unique 10. / Ɵættʃʃ / thatch B. Write
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NPM : 10420222 MORPHOPHONEMIC TYPES Morphemes may have more than one variant in different environments‚ we can have another definition of morpheme‚ i.e. a morpheme is a group of allomorphs which have similar meaning or show semantic similarity‚ and are in complementary distribution. The change in form from the base into other allomorphs is called ‘morphophonemic’ change or alternation‚ while the study of morphophonemic change of morphemes in different environment is called‚ as mentioned
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ho Introduction We are all intimately familiar with at least one language‚ our own. Yet few of us ever stop to consider what we know when we know a language. There is no book that contains the English or Russian or Macedonian language. The words of a language can be listed in a dictionary‚ but not all the sentences‚ and a language consists of these sentences as well as words. Speakers use a finite set of rules to produce and understand an infinite set of “possible” sentences. These
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language that can be used by it. (Bollinger and sears1968:43) A word is a morpheme or series of morphemes possessing internal cohesion and positional mobility. When we say a word has internal cohesion‚ we simply mean that it cannot be interrupted‚ or that other elements of linguistics cannot be interpolated within it. The property of positional mobility distinguishes the word from the next level of meaning below it‚ the morpheme. Thus‚ a word is mobile in that it is capable of being distributed in
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process. New words come into a language by different means. Many of them are inherited from early stages of the language. Others are created by considering the morphemes‚ the spelling or the phonological pattern of the words. In order to understand different word formation processes‚ it is important to understand the concept of morphemes‚ roots and affixes‚ etc. The following are the processes by which new words come into a language. Acronyms These words are formed from the initials of a group
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what people KNOW when they know a language we know what people know by what they DO sometimes what people DO does not indicate what they KNOW **much of a language is IMPLICIT‚ we are not conscious of what we know communication transferring thoughts from one mind to another indirect means (can’t directly transfer mind-to-mind) speaker: information source‚ transmitter‚ signal listener: receiver & destination knowledge of a language formulate thought find correct words put correct
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|1. Lexicology as a branch of |3. Etymological survey of the |4. Types of word meaning. Word |5. Change of meaning in English. |№ 6 Polysemy in English. |№ 7 Homonymy in English. Polysemy vs| |linguistics. Lexical units. |English lexicon. |meaning and motivation. |Word-meaning is liable to change in |1. The semantic structure of the |homonymy | |Lexicology (from Gr lexis ‘word’ and|The term “etymology”
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CONTENTS Introduction……………………………………………………….3 Chapter I. Word-formation and its basic peculiarities……….……5 1.1. Affixation in the English language……………………..…….7 1.2. Degree of derivation…….…………………………...……….7 1.3.Homonymic derivational affixes……………………...……..18 Chapter II. Prefixation in the English language…………………28 2.1. Prefixation. Some debatable problems………………...……28 2.2. Classification of prefixes…………………………..………..33 2.3. Productive and non-productive word building
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