Intro to Linguistics { Morphology Jirka Hana { October 31, 2011 Overview of topics 1 Basic terminology 2 Classi cation of morphemes 3 Structure of words 4 Morphological processes 5 Word formation 6 Language Typology 7 Processing morphology 1 Basic terminology Morphology { study of internal structure of words
What is linguistic morphology? • Morphology is where all linguistic dimensions come together: “Morphology is at the conceptual centre of linguistics This is not because it is the dominant subdiscipline, but because morphology is the study of word structure, and words are at the interface between phonology, syntax and
1 The Basics 2 Talking about Morphemes o General o Affixes 3 Hierarchical Structure 4 Morphophonology 5 Coining New Words Definition: the study of word structure
1 1-What is Morphology? (1) The field of linguistics that examines the internal structure of words and processes of word formation is known as Morphology So, we study Morphology to know the internal structure of words and the segmentation into different kinds of morphemes is essential to the two basic purposes of morphology:
The morphology of a language concerns the generalizations about form and meaning that relate words to one another within that language The phonology of a language concerns the generalizations about the sound patterns in that language Morphology and phonology intersect insofar as the statement of mor-
What is Linguistic Morphology? • Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words • Derivational morphology How new words are created from existing words • [grace] • [[grace]ful] • [un[grace]ful]] • Inflectional morphology How features relevant to the syntactic context of a word are marked on that word
morphological subcomponent, the relation of the lexical component to the other components of the grammar, the effects of meaning on word formation rules, the
Morphology is one of linguistics branches that must be learnt by the English Department since it plays an Complex and compound words are closely related
Morphology was central to nineteenth century linguistics for two reasons word formation, therefore, these related word forms can be treated as a single