Morphology Lesson 6B
ESONERO LUNEDI 15 DICEMBRE NESSUNA PRENOTAZIONE ore A-L ore11.00 M-Z
Structure UsePragmatics Meaning (semantics) Grammar Medium of Transmission PhoneticsPhonologyMorphologySyntaxLexiconDiscourse Structure of Spoken Language (from Crystal 1997)
CLASSIFYING GRAMMAR
CLASSIFYING MORPHOLOGY
THE OVERALL PICTURE
Morphemes minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function Distinction between free morphemes and bound morphemes
Free morphemes can stand by themselves as a single word e.g. grace Can be lexical (e.g. boy,elephant) or functional (e.g. and, but)
Bound morphemes Cannot stand alone but need to be “bound” to another morpheme, e.g. re-, -ful Prefixes and suffixes are bound morphemes Divided into derivational and inflectional
BASE FORMS boy, yes, elephant No CONSTITUENT PARTS also called ROOTS or STEMS
PREFIXES e.g. un-, de-, super- meaningful elements come BEFORE base form lexical role – allow for the construction of a large number of new words
SUFFIXES e.g. –ness, -ed, -er meaningful elements 2 types: DERIVATIONAL INFLECTIONAL
DEFINING SUFFIXES
INFLECTION OF PLURAL
INFLECTION OF VERBS
black bird vs. blackbird BLACK BIRD two words bird which is black meaning is predictable classified as a PHRASE (NP) BLACKBIRD one word a particular type of bird (merlo) meaning not predictable classified as a COMPOUND
IT’S, WE’LL etc. clitics bound words (cannot stand alone) cannot be stressed
POWER STATION two words station is the head power is the modifier classified as a compound
green house vs. greenhouse (like black bird vs. blackbird) GREEN HOUSE meaning is predictable classified as a PHRASE (NP) GREENHOUSE meaning not predictable classified as a COMPOUND
white house vs. White House white house casa bianca meaning is predictable classified as a PHRASE (NP) White House Casa Bianca meaning not predictable classified as a COMPOUND
Compounds can be single words or combinations of words e.g. blackbird e.g. power station
COMPOUNDS COMPOUND VERBS COMPOUND ADJECTIVES COMPOUND NOUNS
COMPOUND VERBS VERB-VERB stir-fry NOUN-VERB air-condition ADJECTIVE VERB dry-clean PREPOSITION VERB underestimate
COMPOUND ADJECTIVES NOUN-ADJECTIVE sky-high ADJECTIVE-ADJECTIVE red-hot PREPOSITION-ADJECTIVE hyper-active
COMPOUND NOUNS VERB-NOUN swearword NOUN-NOUN hairnet ADJECTIVE NOUN blackboard PREPOSITION-NOUN overcoat
CV, CN or CA ? earthquake sightsee goldfish scarecrow postman CN (noun-verb) CV (noun-verb) CN (noun/adj-noun) CN (verb-noun) CN (noun?-noun)
CV, CN, or CA? birdcage sunrise maneating haircut homesick CN (noun-noun) CN (noun-verb) CA (noun-verb) CN (noun-noun) CA (noun-adj)