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Note from Morphology II from 18.11.2019 Course A
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Morphology IIInflection derivation
Adds grammatical meaning often adds lexical meaning
Creates word-forms prodecues new lexemes
Sing-s un-happy
Teacher-s kind-dom
John-’s self-ish
quick-er teach-er
English typologically
Synthetic <——————————————————->analytic
Poorly inflected high amount of periphrastic constructions
Portmanteau morphemes (ever increasing) e.g. going to future
Derivation
• A concatenative word-formation process
• Word-formation process involving the attachment on an affix
Type of affixes
• Classification depends on
- position:
Prefix un-happy
Suffix eat-able
(infix) abso-bloody-lutely (making a word longer for dramatic effect)
- the word form they derive:
- Nominal V->N sing-er
- Verbal A->V sick-en
- Adjectival N->A rain-y
Curiosity
Underdeliverable
most fundamental component of derivative: ROOT
Inconclusiveness
Inability
Towards globalization
Globalise
globalise+ -action BASE3
Global + -ise BASE2
Globe + -al ROOT (BASE1)
ROOTword for unhealthy ->heal
Productive affixes
- the nominal suffix -th or
- The adjectival suffix -ish
Problematic -er derivations
• Teacher, baker, reader, writer, walker, etc.
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