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The summary of chapter three: A word and its parts: roofs, affixes and their shapes
1. Taking words apart
There are many words that not be listed in dictionary that its meaning just we know
c) Combining form : a process of combining one free root and one bound root
4. Morpheme and their allomorphs
Morpheme can also be said to be the smallest element of word formation and
adjusted to the rules of a language. Allomorph is the name for the form when it is known
status. In other words allomorph is a concrete manifestation of a morpheme. So every
morpheme has allomorphs course, whether one, two, or six.
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Lexeme : can stands alone and it is the basic form that has variant forms
Example: perform perform, performs, performed, performing
Inflection: It is the area of morphology concerned with changes in word shape (through
affixation) that are determined, or potencially affect the grammatical context in with a
word appears.
Example: catcats
Regular and Irregular inflection
Example: pianists does not have to be listed in dictionaries
Because, 1st, we know an English word is a noun denoting a kind of thing that can be
counted, then we can be confident that it will have a plural form.
2nd, We can be confident that the plural form of any countable noun will be formed by
adding to the singular form the suffix s (or the appropriate allomorph of the suffix).
All word forms of a lexeme are not always share the same root morpheme. Phenomenon
where by one lexeme is represented by two or more different roots, depending on the
context.
Forms of nouns
Example:
CAT one root morpheme
CAT
CATS two morphemes (a root and the suffix s)
Note that s is the regular suffix for forming plurals.
-i (cacti), -ae (formulae), -a (phenomena), -(r)en (children) are irregular suffixes
expressing plurality.
There are also some countable nouns that express their plural with no suffix at all
(teeth, men).
And the ones whose plurals display not even a vowel change (sheep)*/ zero plural
or zero suffix.
NOTE: only SOME nouns have plural forms, namely nouns that refer
to entities that are countable.
Example:
Singular
Determiner lexeme: THASThat
Singular
Determiner lexeme: THEThe
These
Plural
Those
Plural
Zero plural
Singular
Plural
Forms of verbs
Some verb lexemes have at most FIVE forms;
Most verbs have only FOUR forms (regular verbs).
Example: DIG dig, digs, dug, digging, dug.
Forms of Adjectives
Many English adjectives exhibit THREE forms (they receive the suffixes er and est
when their basic form has one syllable, or two provided that the second syllable ends
in a vowel).
Tall
positive of tall
Taller
Tallest
the superlative of tall
Some adjective lexemes lack these forms. For these lexemes there is a conventional
circumlocution (PERIPHRASIC FORM):
- Morecomparative
- Most superlative
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: Yesi Ratnasari
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modify the meaning of the base. In many cases, derivational affixes change both the syntactic
category and the meaning: modern modernize ("to make modern"). The modification of
meaning is sometimes predictable: Adjective + ness the state of being (Adjective);
(white whiteness).
A prefix (write re-write; lord over-lord) will rarely change syntactic category in
English. The inflectional prefix un- applies to adjectives (healthy unhealthy), some verbs
(do undo), but rarely nouns. A few exceptions are the derivational prefixes en- and be-.
En- (em- before labials) is usually used as a transitive marker on verbs, but can also be
applied to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verb: circle (verb) encircle (verb); but
rich (adj) enrich (verb), large (adj) enlarge (verb), rapture (noun) enrapture (verb),
slave (noun) enslave (verb).
Note that derivational affixes are bound morphemes. In that, derivation differs from
compounding, by which free morphemes are combined (lawsuit, Latin professor). It also
differs from inflection in that inflection does not create new lexemes but new word forms
(table tables; open opened).Derivation can occur without any change of form, for
example telephone (noun) and to telephone. This is known as conversion or zero derivation.
Some linguists consider that when a word's syntactic category is changed without any change
of form, a null morpheme is being affixed.
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Compound is made when two words are joined to form a new word. While phrase is
two or more words that dont contain subject-verb pair necessary to form a clause.
Consider the examples below:
Phrases
1. Green house
Compounds
1.
Greenhouse
Blackboard
(Board for writing on)
3.
: stir-fry, freeze-dry
2. Noun-verb (NV)
Headed Compounds are compound words which the meaning IS specified by its
words e.g.:
Blackboard (Blackboard : is kind of board)
Headless Compounds are compound words which the meaning IS NOT specified by
its words e.g. : faintheart
(faintheart is not a kind of heart but a kind of person, someone who has a faint heart)
It is clear from these examples that acronym is in active use for the creation of new
vocabulary.
G. Compounds Containing Bound Combining Forms
Combining forms are compounds that are made up of bound roots. Example:
H. Phrasal Words
Phrasal word is complex item that its internal structure is phrase and it functions as
word.
Compare:
1. Jack-in-the-box
Its plural: Jack-in-the-boxes
2.
Example no. 1 is phrasal word, it is treated as a word, not phrase, so the plural suffix
(s) is addes in the end.
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: Yesi Ratnasari
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: 13-530-0059
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: B/2013
Some words are predictable, but the word does not have to be registered as lexical items.
Predictability meanings depending on how the structure of complex words makes
interpretation of each. The way how it was formed, the elements that make it up , is an
important building block in the understanding of language . Although it is often
convenient to refer to the vocabulary, which is the word and its meaning becomes
important to consider the building of a word, morpheme , affixes and inflections.
7.2 Affixes as Heads
In the derivation morphology of English, suffixes excess of prefixes. Most compounds
have the head (right headed). Example: greenhouse.
As the head, house determines the status of syntactic compound as a noun, and also in its
meaning, greenhouse = home to plant a variety of crops.
7.3 More Elaborate Word Forms: Multiple affixations
Some multiple affixations in English:
(a) The description is guided by the function of word- formation.
(b) More consideration is given to the relation between word -formation and the lexicon.
(c) Semantic aspects of word -formation rules are taken into account.
(d) The Data are interpreted in an unbiased way.
7.4 More Elaborate Word Forms: Compounds within Compounds
Any compound has only two parts of immediate constituents. Examples:
Window oven cleaner is not in fact be interpreted as something good cleaning windows
and ovens; but mean something clean the oven window (an oven which has a transparent
panel in the door).
7.5 Apparent mismatches between Meaning and Structure
It has been agreed that the interpretation of complex words (whether derived or
compounded) depends on the hope that the meaning should go hand in hand with the
structure. So far, these expectations have been met, provided the word with the meaning
that is really special (strange ) is ignored . Examples:
- Unhelpfulness.
- Holiday car trip.
- Fresh water fanatic.
- Open door policy.
- French historian (expert in French history)
The two of words are constructed of two meanings constituent parts, which in turn was
built on the meaning of their parts, until we reach the individual morpheme, which by
definition an integral semantics .