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Week3- morphology Dr. Monira I. Al-Mohizea
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| week3-morphology and syntax 0Functional morphs - Functional morphemes:
- Also called ‘function words’) and they:
- Mostly signal syntactic relationships, & include prepositions (e.g. as - are free function morphemes), pronouns (e.g. his, her) and determiners (e.g. the, a, an).
- Functional morphemes belong to closed set that admits no new members (new prepositions, pronouns, and determiners are very rarely added to the language.
Important conclusion! - It follows that the branch of morphology that examines the creation of new vocabulary items is primarily concerned with lexical morphemes
Two broad types of word formation processes: - Inflection versus derivation
Discuss the following: a. She sleeps. b. *We sleeps Othman sleeps *They sleeps lt sleeps *You sleeps What is inflection? - Inflection is syntactically motivated word-formation.
- Inflection creates various forms of the same word
- E.g. third-person singular subject of a present tense verb (e.g. he reads a book every night)
- E.g.
Singular Plural this boy (*these boy) those boys (*this boys) that boy (*those boy) those boys (*that boys) Inflection (1) - English has a small number of inflectional morphemes.
- They are all suffixes. Discuss??
- Inflectional suffixes form a closed set (i.e. the language no longer adds to its inventory of inflectional endings. (English used to have considerably more complex inflectional morphology).
- Inflection is syntax driven.
- Many inflectional processes involve agreement.
- (subject-verb- number- agreement??).
Inflectional suffixes Some terms.. Genitive: In grammar denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives ( in grammatical agreement with them)
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