SITI MUNIRAH BINTI KAMARUDDIN 1410992 PROF DR NURAIHAN BT MAT DAUD MORPHOLOGY SITI MUNIRAH BINTI KAMARUDDIN 1410992 PROF DR NURAIHAN BT MAT DAUD
MORPHOLOGY Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the structure of words.
BORROWING Borrowing is the word formation process in which a word from one language is borrowed directly into another language. For example, the following common English words are borrowed from Spanish languages.
BORROWING ENGLISH SPANISH Cafeteria cafetería Cargo carga Tornado tronada Vanilla vainilla Chocolate chocolate
Combination of two or more free morphemes together to form a new word COMPOUNDING Combination of two or more free morphemes together to form a new word
COMPOUNDING tocadiscos record player play + records rascacielo sky scraper scrape + sky abrelata can opener open + can narcotraficante drug trafficker drug +trafficker
ONOMATOPOEIA The formation of words that people use for representing the sound of animals or things.
The onomatopoeia not the same for all languages and cultures because they interpret each sound by their own way. For example when people make the onomatopoeia for a frog, they have different answers such as: coa-coa French Gae-gool-gae-gool Korean berp Argentina ribbit US