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Week3- morphology Dr. Monira I. Al-Mohizeaused to indicate a relation of possession or association
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| week3-morphology and syntax 0used to indicate a relation of possession or association. Exercise! - Following the inflectional suffixes tables, think of other examples in English for nouns:
- Native irregular plurals vs. borrowed irregular plurals
And for verbs: - Regular vs. irregular
And for adjectives: - Comparative vs. superlative
Inflection (2) - Inflectional properties may be inherent (a morpheme is associated with its properties regardless of context).
- E.g. Countable vs. uncountable nouns
Hammer(s) *equipment(s) Derivation - Derivation is not motivated by the syntax, its role is to generate new lexical items.
- Derivation changing meaning
Input Derived word Tell retell Do undo - Derivation changing syntactic category
Faith (noun) faithful (adjective) fierce (adjective) fiercely (adverb) sing (verb) singer (noun) Discuss! Inflection vs. Derivation - Derivation tends to affects the meaning of the word, while inflection tends to affect only its syntactic function.
- Derivation tends to be more irregular and sporadic – there are more gaps, the meaning is more idiosyncratic and less compositional, but inflectional morphology is mostly regular.
- E.g. all verbs take –ing but we cannot say ( *yellowen) following (whiten and darken).
- Therefore, derivational processes tend to be more productive than inflectional ones.
- The boundary between derivation and inflection is often fuzzy and unclear. Discus with your partner & give examples
- Complex words (containing a sequence of suffixes) such as, Sing-er-s.
- The derivational suffixes are nearer to the root (-er) whereas the inflectional plural –s suffix is at the edge of the word.
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