1. College of Science and Humanity Studies, Al-Kharj

2. Level8 (1rst Semester)

3. Course Title :Syntax& Morphology

4. Prepared by Teacher: Bahia Khalifa Ibrahim

5. Objectives: The lecture will provide information concerning the levels of language analysis. Definition of morphology Types of morphology.

6. The Typographical Level Capitalization SpellingSpacing Punctuation

7. The Morphological Level The Morphologic al Level Prefixes SuffixesCompounds

8. The Grammatical Level Subject-Verb Agreement : The boy opens the door The boy open the door Active-Passive: The door was opened by the boy. The door were opened by the boy.

9. The Semantic Level Grammatical: The woman is pregnant. Acceptable: The man is pregnant.

10.  Discuss the various levels of language analysis ( when applicable)to two of the following sentences.  The green-houses are used extensively in agriculture.  The co-pilot unexpectedly decides to land in a desert.

11.  Colorless green ideas sleep furiously  The taxi-deriver disregards the red-light.

12.  The identification, analysis, and description of the structure of a given language’s morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of speech…etc.  Morpheme:  A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. Morphology

13. Types of Morphemes MorphemesFreeBound

14. Free morphemes Lexical housesincereFunctionalbut because

15. Bound morphemes DerivationalSuffixesPrefixesInflectionalTensePlural/possessive

16. Problems in Morphological Descriptions Law/Legal Sheep Men

17. Morph & Allomorphs Morphs: The actual form used to realize morphemes. Cat, boy, derive Allomorphs: Are attached to a number of lexical morphemes to produce structures such as: (cat+plural) (Sheep+plural)…etc. (zero-morph).

18. Important sites http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgmyM6HrtRc Morphology linguistics http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBP1MRdrbDGc GWawOXLdqriClXtA2IefA

19. Suggested Topics for research Levels of Language Analysis Morphology: Definition & Types Word formation Processes. Syntax: Definition, Parts of Speech, syntactic categories. Syntactic analysis: methods of syntactic analysis.

20.  Grammar: Definition, types of grammar.  Generative grammar  Phrase structure rules  Transformation Generative Grammar