INTRODUCTION TO
MORPHOLOGY
Etymologically,
the term “morphology” comes from two words, which are morphos and logos. Morphos means
“form” and logos means “study of”.
Hence morph
ology is the study of forms.
Morphology
is study of internal structure of the words
For
example,
Books- is a plural form
Book-is a ‘root’
S-
is suffix
Atakuja
a-ta-kuj
biological
bi-olog-cal
Morphology
deals with three things, which are meaning of words, meaningful parts of the
words and structural relationship of words.
THE PURPOSE OF
STUDYING MORPHOLOGY
E.g., why do
we study morphology?
a) We can spell the words easily
b) It helps us to learn grammar
c) It helps us to learn the meaning of
words
d) It also helps us to make language
analysis easily
WORDS
What is a
word?
Word is a
meaningful linguistic unit, which form parts of sentence. Or, is an arbitrary
pairing of sounds and meaning. Also, word can be defined as a linguistic form,
which is separated by space from others.
Three
Important elements in Morphology are Morph, Allomorph and Morpheme
MORPHEME
Is
a meaningful form of a word e.g., unfaithfulness Un-faith-ful-ness .These are
morphs.
ALLOMOPH
Is
a variant forms of the same morpheme e.g. S is a morpheme in the word books,
book also is a morpheme.
MORPHEME
Is
a smallest meaningful linguistic unit in the structure of language. Eg S is a
morpheme, therefore it is meaningful in a word.
/ s/
S / z/
/ iz/
boys
/iz/
books
/s/
cows
/z/
These
all are the allomorphs
TYPES OF MORPHEMES
Morpheme
are classified according to two criterion
1.
Structure/form
It
is structural classification of morpheme
a)
Free morpheme
b)
Bound morpheme
Free
morpheme
Is
a morpheme which can stand alone and give meaning it needs no assistance of another
word e.g. article, a, an, the, in words book, take, go
Bound
morpheme
Is
morpheme which can not stand alone, it is dependent e.g. ‘er’ in word teacher ,
‘ness’ in happiness, ‘ful’ in faithful.
2.
According to the
meaning, where by we get;
a)
Lexical morpheme
These are the
morphemes, which express complete meaning. They are divided into two categories
i.
Free morpheme
E.g. dog, teach, play,
take, write.
ii.
Bound morpheme
E.g. mono, un, er. etc.
b)
Grammar/functional
morpheme
i.
Free morpheme
ii.
Bound morpheme
Morpheme
Free morpheme Bound morpheme
Major
class word Minor class word Affixes Base Contracted forms
(open
class word) (closed class word) Prefix
Suffix Infix
e.g.
verbs, adjectives -no new words can be
added
,
nouns, adverbs e.g. preposition,
articles
,
conjunction
WORDS AND
MORPHEMES
Words
and morphemes can be equal. A word with single morpheme can be a word or morpheme.
Several morphemes can constitute a word.
Words
in English or any other language are made distinct not only by their
differences in meaning and other aspects, but they are also identified by their
forms. That is the sequence of sound that constitutes them. Meaning and forms
are essentials in language, According to De Sanssure a ‘word’ is a linguistic
sign in which there is an arbitrary union between the sound which is form and meaning which is concept. Therefore, form and meaning of
word are inseparable.
Knowing
the word means to know both its form and concept for which it stands. That
means you must understand it as a unit made up of sound meaning combination
that a word is a unit of sound and meaning. You may not know the pronounciation
of the word if the word is not well stored in your mental dictionary and some
of the parts are not known well. This means to know the word you must know its
elements
TYPES OF
WORDS
Words
can be classified according to meaning and its structure
1.
According to
Meaning
i.
Lexical/Content
words
Are
words with high meaning values. They are also referred to as open class word
because new words can be added to a lexicon or vocabulary. E.g. nouns, verbs,
adjectives, adverbs.
ii.
Function
/grammatical words
These are words with less meaning values. They are
also known as closed class words, they include minor words like conjunctions,
prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, articles. These words do not allow new word class creation.
None of them can easily coined and added to the vocabulary of the language.
2.
According to
structure
i.
Simple word
ii.
Compound word
iii.
Complex word
Simple word
Sometimes
it is called a basic word. These are words with one morpheme they can not be
broken and still give a meaning. E.g. play, eat, write, jump, teach. etc.
Compound words
Are
words with two free morphemes, they have two simple words go together. E.g.
raincoat, housegirl, headmaster, classleader.
Complex words
These
are words with more or many morphemes. In the sense that a word with more than
one morpheme.
e.g. teachers teach-er-s
classrooms class-room-s
Parts of the complex words
A complex word has three parts
word
affix base affix
BASE
Is
the basic or main part of the word to which other morphemes can be added.
Katamba (1992) defined a base as any unit to which affixes or any kind can be
added. The affixes added to base may be inflectional affixes which alter the
meaning or grammatical category of the base. E.g. a word ‘boy’ is a base
because can be attached an inflectional suffixes (s) to form plural form of a
word.
(s) Is inflectional affix
(ish) from noun to adjective
‘boyish’
ROOT
Is
a smallest part of the word which can not be broken, analysed, or divided into
meaningful units. E.g. put, rain, play, read, etc.
STEM
Is
the base which can still be broken further into meaningful units and can be
added affixes. Or stem can also be defined as a part of word that is in
existence before any inflectional affixes.
E.g. un-faith-ful-ness
‘faith’ is a
base
‘
unfaithful’----base/stem
‘faithful’----base/stem
‘faithfulness’----base/stem
AFFIXES
An
affix is an a morpheme which only occurs when attached to some other morphemes
such as a root, stem or base. Is a morpheme which is added to a base in order
to form another word. Affixes are bound morphemes since no word may contain
only an affix standing on its only.
THREE
TYPES OF AFFIXES
1.
Prefixes
These are affixes attached before the root, stem or
base.
E.g. un, re, in
Unkind,
remake, inaccurate
2.
Suffix
Is an affix attached after a root, stem or base
E.g. ly, er, ist
Specially, teacher
3.
Infix
Is an affix inserted in to the root. They are common
in semitic language like Arabic and Hebrew. They are also found in a language
called Tagalog
a)
basa-----read
bumasa----read!
‘um’ stands for exclamation mark.
b)
tawaga----- to
call
tumawaga-----call!
t----uma----waga
c)
sulat----- write
sumulat-----
write!
N.B: Infixes in tagalong language have been underlined
above.
TYPES OF PREFIXES
1. Negative Prefixes
E.g. un, ill, im, ir, in, dis.
2. Prefixes which show number
E.g. ‘bi’ means two
‘di’
means two
‘tri’
means three
‘quadra’
means four
‘penta’
means five
‘hexa’ means
six
‘sept’
means seven
‘octor’
means eight
‘nona’
means nine
‘deca’
means ten
3.Pejorative
Prefixes (disapproach)
Mis----- wrong, astray e.g. mislead, misbehave
Mal-----bad or badly done, e.g. maltreat, malnutrition, malformed
Pseudo-----false,imitation e.g. pseudopodia, pseudonym
4.
Prefixes of
degree
Arch----
highest, top, head, e.g. archbishop
Super----
above, better, over, more than e.g. supersonic, superpower
Out---- to
do something better, faster, longer than e.g. outshine, outstanding,
outshine
Sur-----
over, above, e.g. surface, surpass, surcharge
Over-----
too much, beyond level e.g. overconfidence, overloaded, overtake
Sub----
lower, less than e.g. submarine, substructure
Under----
too little, below level e.g. undermine, underdeveloped.
Hyper----
extremely e.g. hypertension
Ultra----
beyond, extremely e.g. ultraviolet, ultrasound
Min----
little, small e.g. miniskirt, minbus
5.
Attitude Prefixes
Co--- with, jointly, together e.g. co-operative,
co-ordinator, co-education
Bene--- good, well e.g. benefit, benefactor, benedict
Contra--- opposition to, against e.g. contraceptives,
contradiction
6.
Locative Prefixes
Sub---
beneath, less in rank e.g. subway, subconscious
Inter---
between, among e.g. international, interclass
Trans---
across, one place to another e.g. transport, transplant
Ex--- out,
aside of something e.g. expel, export, exhaust
Circum---
around e.g. circumference, circumstances
7.
Prefix of time
and order
Fore---
precede, before e.g. foretell, foresee, forecast
Pre---
before e.g. pre-colonial, pre-mature
Post---
after to noun e.g. postwar, postgraduate
Ex---
former, past, retired e.g. ex-president, ex-soldier
Other prefixes are;
Auto--- self control e.g. automatic, autoreverse
Neo--- new, revived e.g. neo colonialism, neo culture
Pan--- all, worldwide e.g. Pan-Africanism,
Tele--- far, distant e.g. television, telephone
Semi--- half e.g. semi final, semi desert
Vice---depute e.g. vice chairman, vice chancellor
Syn and Sym--- with, the same, equal e.g. synonyms,
sympathy
SUFFIXES
Are classified according to the following criteria
A. ACCORDING TO THE WORD CLASS THEY ARE ATTACHED
i.
Noun suffixes
Eg.
er/or- driver, director
-tion-
education, introduction
-ment-
development, movement
-ism-
colonialism, capitalism
-acy-
democracy,aristocracy
-ity-
activity, reality, brevity
-ence-
difference, importance
ii.
Adjective
suffixes
-ful-
careful, useful
-less-
careless, helpless, useless
-ous-
courageous, joyous, famous
-ive-
informative, active
-y-
salty, sugary, sandy
-ical/ic-
economic, basic, classic, biological
-al-
refusal, denial
-ure-
pressure
iii.
Verb suffixes
-ify-
simplify, beautify, rectify
-ise/ize-
mordenize, apologise, organize
-en-
blacken, whiten
-ate-
differentiate, substantiate
iv.
Adverb suffix
-ly-
completely, quickly, totally
B. ACCORDING TO FUNCTION
i.
Derivational
suffixes
Are morphemes which change the word class when added
to the stem or root.
Eg. nation- national
-happy- happiness
ii.
Inflectional
suffixes
Are suffixes which do not change the word class when
added to the stem or root.
Eg. boy- boys
DIFFERENCES BTN DERIVATIONAL AND INFLECTIONAL SUFFIXES
I.
Derivational
suffixes help the process of word formation while inflectional suffix do not
II.
Derivational
suffixes change the grammatical class of the root or stem while inflectional
suffixes do not
III.
Derivational
suffixes in a formation of a stem to which inflectional suffixes may then be
added eg.nationalise- nationalized
IV.
Derivational
suffixes change the sub-word class eg. slave (concrete)- slavery
MULTIPLE AFFIXATION
Refers to the way to which complex word are formed by
bases which contains several morphemes around.
WORD FORMATION CLASSES ( MORPHOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY)
They are five morphological typology
1.
Analytic or
Isolating language e.g. Chinese
2.
Agglutinating or
agglutinative language
3.
Inflecting/
Synthetic/ Fusional language e.g. Latin
4.
Incorporating/
Polysythetic language e.g. Australia and Native American languages
5.
Templeting
/Semitic languages
ANALYTIC OR ISOLATING LANGUAGE
Refers to languages where each morpheme tends to occur
as a word. There is no inflectional morphemes e.g. Chinese language
AGGLUTINATING OR AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE
Comes from Latin word “glue”. Words are formed by
joining or put together morphemes and they can easily be segmented from each
other. E.g. Bantu languages including Kiswahili
INFLECTING/ SYNTHETIC/ FUSIONAL LANGUAGES
Is a language where by words consist of several
morphemes which are not distinguishable since several grammatical bits of
meaning are fused into one. E.g. Latin
INCORPORATING / POLYSYNTHETIC LANGUAGE
This refers to the languages which the words are
extremely complex in morphological structure. E.g. Australia and Native
American languages
TEMPLETING/ SEMITIC LANGUAGES
Are languages which have non-connate native morphology
and involve infixation. E.g. Arabic and Hebrew languages
MORPHOPHONEMICS
Deals with the study of the relationship between
morphology and phonology. It involves an investigation of the phonological
variations within morphemes .
-
It is concerned
with the changes in pronounciation undergone by allomorphs of morphemes as they
are modified by neighboring sounds. E.g. the plural allomorphs in the following
words
Cats /s/ dogs /z/ boxes /iz/
Cups cards noises
Bricks bags bushes
-
An allomorph is a
linguistics term for a variant form of a morpheme. The concept occurs when a
unit of meaning can vary in sound (phonologically) without changing meaning. It
is used in linguistics to explain the comprehension of variations in sound for
a specific morpheme. i.e. the different phonetic forms of morpheme which are
produced by morphophonemic rule are called allomorphs.
The rule which determine phonemic
forms of a morpheme is called Morphophonemic
rule.
-
For example, in
English, a past tense morpheme is –ed. It occurs in several allomorphs
depending on its phonological environment, assimilating voicing of the previous
segment or inserting a Schwa when
following an alveolar stop:
-
As /∂d/ or /Іd/
in verbs where those stem ends with the alveolar stop /t/ or /d/ such as
“hunted” /hɅnt∂d/ or “banded” /bǽnd∂d/
-
As /t/ in verbs
whose stem ends with voiceless phonemes other than /t/ such as “fished” / fiʃt/
-
As /d/ in verbs
whose stem ends voiced phonemes other than /d/ such as “buzzed” /bɅzd/
MORPH
Is a physical realization of a morpheme or physical
representation of a morpheme.
WORD FORMATION
Is the process of creating new words in a language
-It is a process by which new words are formed and
added in a language. Through word formation we get new words in a language.
PROCESSS OF WORD FORMATION
1.
AFFIXATION
Is the process of adding affixes in a word to get new
words in a language. There are three types of affixation , they are;
a)
Prefixation, here
affixes are added at the initial place of a word.
b)
Infixation,
affixes are added at the middle position of a word.
c)
Suffixation, the
process where by affixes are added at final position of a word.
2.
CONVERSION (Zero
Affixation)
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