1. Morphology &Syntax Dep. Code No. Eng. 4860

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3. Morphology Morphemes Define Morphemes Define

4. The smallest grammatical unit. A short segment of language. The smallest grammatical unit. A short segment of language.

5. Examples morphemes cheep/er bright/en: im/possible cheep/er bright/en: im/possible

6. Morpheme criteria It is a word that has meaning. It canot be divided into smaller parts. It recurs in differing verbal environment with stable meaning

7. Activity 1 How many morphemes each word contain? play........replay..... mini-kirt.....rainy.......cover...

8. Exercise 1 write the number of morphemes Weak Man able Cheep Cheeper Cheeply Unable weaken

9. Exercise 2 write the meaning of underlined morphemes Antedate Repay Manly Keeper unable Inactive Impossible Mal-fuction

10. Classification of morphemes

11. a.Bound morphemes Bound morphemes can not be uttered in alone with meaning. They are connected to more morphemes to words. E.g the morpheme: er in keeper b.Free morphemes Free morphemes can be uttered alone with meaning

12. Free open come red open come red Bound dom ive re un dom ive re un

13. Give examples of (Task 1) Free morphemes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Bound morphemes

14. a.Base morphemes A part of a word that has the principal meaning. b.Affix morpheme A bound morpheme that occur before, within, or after abase.

15. Base denial loyable reread denial loyable reread affix al able re al able re

16. affixes An affix is a bound morpheme that occurs: 1.before abase (prefix) 2.after abase- (suffix) 3.within abase-- (infix) An affix is a bound morpheme that occurs: 1.before abase (prefix) 2.after abase- (suffix) 3.within abase-- (infix)

17. Examples of affixes prefixes: import-prefix-reconsider English prefixes are a small class of morphemes(75) Activity: Give 10 examples of prefixes. ::Infixes are rare in English In plural nouns e.g geese pl of goose.in the past tense and past participle of verbs like o of chose and chosen. Suffixes: normalizers, friendship, reposibilities.

18. Give the meaning of the prefixes irrelevant postwar proceed semiprofessional prewar deemphasize

19. Underline the infixes Mouse, mice Take,took, taken Grow, grew, grown Spin, span, spun Ring, rang, rung foot, feet Ride, rode, ridden Tear, tore, torn find, found,found Shake, shook,shaken,

20. Write the number of suffixes greater personalities increasingly organizes agreeable responsibilities

21. Each group of words contain a base and suffixes. Make each into a word ed-live-en ing-at-termin- ity- work-able Ly-ion-ate-affect Er-s-mor- al-ize Provinc-s-ism-ial

22. Inflectional affixes

23. Derivational affixes

24. Immediate constituents