1. ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY
Week 4

2. Words, Wordings & Forewordings
AFFIXES
Suffixes Prefixes
Morphemes?
Compexity?
Meaning?

3. Words, Wordings & Forewordings
TALLER SINGER SIMPLICITY WISDOM SINGING MOVING SMARTEST SINNER WATCHED WORKS BASKETS JOHN’S HAPPILY WIDEN COLOURFUL MISTER

4. Word, Worded or Ill-Worded?
Inflection VS Derivation
Grammatical categories (person, number, tense, etc.)
New lexeme (change in word class is possible, yet not neccessary)

5. Word, Worded or Ill-Worded?
Inflectional suffixes:
{-s1} Plural of nouns (dogs);
{-s2} Genitive case (dog’s);
{-s3} Third person Sg. in the Present Simple Tense (walks);
{-ed} Regular verbs ending in the Past Simple Tense/Past Participle
(walked);
{-ing} Present participle (walking);
{-er} Comparative (sweeter);
{-est} Superlative (the sweetest)….

6. Word, Worded or Ill-Worded?
STEM VS ROOT
RECOVERED
ROOT – CANNOT BE FURTHER DIVIDED (ALL AFFIXES HAVE BEEN REMOVED)
(RE-)COVERED
STEM – INFLEXTIONAL AFFIX HAS BEEN REMOVED

7. Word, Worded or Ill-Worded?
Conversion
TO PLAY VS A PLAY (change in word class, change in form?)
Back-formation
BABY-SITTER VS TO BABY-SIT, BACK-FORMATION
VS TO BACK-FORMATE, DIAGNOSIS VS TO DIAGNOSE

8. Word, Worded or Ill-Worded?
Back-formation
TO EVALUATE FROM....
TO GAMBLE FROM...
TO HOUSEKEEP FROM...
TO MANIPULATE FROM...
TO OBLIGATE FROM...
TO SIGHTSEE FROM...
SEMANTIC FROM...