Chapter 3: Morphology
The study of words
-
3.1 Introductions:
• U.S. fast food giant McDonald's Corp said on Tuesday it would give its Chinese employees their first across-the-board pay rise.
• He spoke in a look-who’s-talking tone.
-
3.1 Introductions:
• He definitely follows his philosophy of anti-internationalization.
• anti-internationalizationism
-
3.1 Introductions:
• Wall Street capped a huge week with a sharp advance Friday after the government's employment report for September and its revision of August's data cooled the market's fears of a recession.
• A long-time Nixon backer, he assumes a dawk stance on the problem.
-
Teaching Contents:
• 1. What is word? • 2. What is morpheme? • 3. The formation of words
dictum
audible audience audiometer auditor auditorium
visual visible visit vision
-
Diagram B to classify morphemes
free
free root
Morpheme
-
3.3 What is morpheme??
• Morpheme is the minimal linguistic sign, a grammatical unit in which there is an arbitrary union of a sound and a meaning and that cannot be further analyzed.
and categorize them with examples.
noun +
Inflectional morpheme
verb+
adj. +
-
Find out the common factor in each group
describe script prescribe inscribe
dictionary dictation prediction dictograph
-
3.2 What is word?
• Word is a minimal free form. • Q: Could you find out some words
which never, by itself, constitute complete utterances ? e.g. ---What is missing in a sentence such as “Dog is barking”?
--- A.
-
What is
3.3

morpheme?
?
• A morpheme is a minimal unit of
meaning or grammatical function.
• Morpheme is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content, a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical. (胡 壮麟，2001：84）
• dog (one morpheme) cat worker • anti+dis+establish+ment+ari+an+ism
-
Fill in Diagram A
Morpheme
) )
)
-
open class
(
(
closed class
(
)
(
Assignment 1: Please collect the inflectional morphemes in English
-
What3is.2
word?
• The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined words as “the smallest significant units of speech”.
-
3.2 What is word?
• Word is a unit of expression that has universal intuitive recognition by native-speakers, whether it is expressed in spoken or written form. (说母语的人对词有种普遍的自觉识别能 力) (胡壮麟，2001：76）
-
Definition of Morphology
• Morphology is the study of the internal structure, forms and classes of words.
• Morphology studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed. (胡壮麟， 2001：84）