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M ORPHOLOGY : T HE W ORDS OF LA NGUAGE Gilmara Johnson Mariana De Luca Stacy Feldstein
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H OMEWORK At your table, discuss your responses for the questions and answers you chose from the homework. 7 minutes
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M ORPHOLOGY : T HE STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE OF WORDS PAGE 34 1. Copyeditor: Adeline Moore 2. Accounts payable: Ineeda Czech 3. Pollution control: Maury Missions 4. Purchasing: Lois Bidder 5. Statistician: Marge Innovera 6. Russian chauffeur: Picov Andropov 7. Legal firm: Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe 1.(add a line more) 2.(I need a check) 3.(more emissions) 4.(lowest bidder) 5.(margin of error) 6.(pick up and drop off) 7.(Do we cheat 'em? And how!)
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C ONTENT W ORDS AND F UNCTION W ORDS Content WordsFunction Words Open classClosed class Denote concepts such as objects, actions, attributes and ideas Have no clear lexical meaning or concept attached to it Specify grammatical relations Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs articles, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns
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W HAT KINDS OF WORDS IS HE TALKING ABOUT, “ CONTENT ” OR “ FUNCTION ”?
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S EGMENTING S OUNDS THECATSONTHEMAT VS. UNCHARACTERISTICALLY
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J IGSAW R EADING Read your section and prepare to present a poster with the main ideas to the class. Group 1: Morphemes: The Minimal Units of Meaning (pp.36-38) Group 2: Bounds and Free morphemes (pp. 39- 42) Group 3: Roots and Stems, Bound Roots (pp.42- 44) Group 4: Rules of word formation, Derivational Morphology (pp. 44-46) Group 5: Inflectional Morphology (pp. 46-49) Group 6: Compounds (pp.57)
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G RAPHIC O RGANIZER As groups present, use you graphic organizer to take notes on the “Description” section. At your tables, use you notes to discuss and complete the “classroom applications” section. You can explain how morphological knowledge affects language teaching or you can design a teaching activity that would help students learn that morphological aspect of language. Share with the class: Pick one concept (different from the one you presented) to show how it applies to teaching ELLs.
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M AIN D IVISIONS OF W ORD C LASSES (P ARTS OF S PEECH ): Content Words Function Words Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Conjunctions Prepositions Articles Pronouns
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E XERCISE : D ETERMINE THE WORD CLASS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING WORDS a. canine b. the c. him d. elegant e. inconvenience f. eloquently g. comply h. inasmuch as i. over a.Noun b.Article c.Pronoun d.Adjective e.Noun f.Adverb g.Verb h.Conjunction i.Preposition
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M ORPHEME : T HE MINIMAL UNIT OF MEANING Free morpheme: a single morpheme that constitutes a word and can stand alone. Bound morpheme: a morpheme that must be attached to another morpheme.
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Q UESTION #2 A, B, I, J, K, L, M Example: Retroactive = retro + act + ive Free morpheme = act Bound morphemes = retro-, -ive
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E NGLISH A FFIXES ( BASED ON THE POSITION ) Prefix: An affix that occurs before a morpheme Suffix: An affix that occurs after a morpheme
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E NGLISH P REFIXES Examples of Negative Prefixes: un-non-dis-a- Examples of size and degree prefixes: mini-sub-over-super-
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E NGLISH S UFFIXES Class preserving suffixation: -er lecturer -ian librarian -ist scientist -let piglet Class changing suffixation: Verb Noun perform performance Adjective Adverb nice nicely Adjective Noun active activity
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A FFIXES ( BASED ON THE FUNCTION ) Inflections vs. Derivations
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D EFINITION Derivational morpheme: deriving (creating) a new word with a new meaning. Inflectional morpheme: changing the form of a word because of the rules of syntax.
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E NGLISH I NFLECTIONAL M ORPHEMES Nouns –s plural –’s possessive Verbs –s third person singular present –edpast tense –en past participle –ingprogressive Adjectives –ercomparative –estsuperlative
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S OME EXAMPLES OF E NGLISH D ERIVATIONAL M ORPHEME -ic : Noun Adj; alcohol alcoholic -ance : Verb Noun; clear clearance -ly : Adj Adv; exact exactly -ity : Adj Noun; active activity -able : Verb Adj; read readable -ship : Noun Noun; friend friendship re- : Verb Verb; cover recover in- : Adj Adj; definite indefinite
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D ESCRIBE THE ITALIC AFFIXES : 1) im possible 2) terroriz ed 3) terror ize 4) desk s 5) dis like 6) human ity 7) fast est 1) Derivational prefix 2) Inflectional suffix 3) Derivational suffix 4) Inflectional suffix 5) Derivational prefix 6) Derivational suffix 7) Inflectional suffix
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Describe the italic affixes: 8) pre mature 9) un tie 10) dark en 11) fall en 12) ox en 13) fast er 14) lectur er 8) Derivational prefix 9) Derivational prefix 10) Derivational suffix 11) Inflectional suffix 12) Inflectional suffix 13) Inflectional suffix 14) Derivational suffix
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Test Question: P HONOLOGY /M ORPHOLOGY R EVIEW
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Test Question: P HONOLOGY /M ORPHOLOGY R EVIEW
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Test Question: P HONOLOGY /M ORPHOLOGY R EVIEW
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Test Question: P HONOLOGY /M ORPHOLOGY R EVIEW
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Test Question: P HONOLOGY /M ORPHOLOGY R EVIEW
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