2015-08-21
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Item-and-arrangement approach. Morpheme. Morph as a contextual realisation of the morpheme; allomorph. Morphological structure of an English word. Types of morphemes. Semantic classification of morphemes: root-morphemes (radicals) and non-root morphemes (derivational and functional affixes; lexicalised grammatical affixes). Structural classification of morphemes (free, bound and semi-bound morphemes). Combining forms. Types of meaning in morphemes (lexical, differential, distributional and part-of-speech meanings). Pseudo-morphemes. Unique roots. Morphemic types of words. Types of word-segmentability (complete, conditional, defective segmentability). Principles of morphological analysis. The method of Immediate and Ultimate Constituents. Derivational (word-formation) analysis. Derivational bases, affixes, patterns (productive and non-productive patterns, nonce-words).
Test Questions
1. What is a morpheme?
2. What is meant by the term ‘allomorph’?
3. What are the semantic and structural types of morphemes? Characterize each type.
4. What is the difference between derivational and functional morphemes?
5. How is the meaning of roots different from the meaning of affixes?
6. What are the three types of morphemic segmentability? Characterize each type.
7. What two principles is the IC-analysis based on?
8. What is the difference betweem the derivational structure and the morphemic structure of the word?
9. What are the structural and semantic differences between derivational bases and morphological stems?
10. What are the moot points of morphemic and derivational analysis?
