MORPHOLOGY

 MORPHOLOGY

This course has been a challenge to many students, also teachers have find themselves into contradiction. By knowing this I have brought to you the full notes with explanation here let's go together.

This book is helpful to students studying linguistic in A' level school, university students studying linguistic subject, also is helpful to teachers teaching English subject.

Introduction to Word structure.

What is a word? 

What we mean by 'word' is not always clear .

Word is used in variety of senses which usually are not clearly distinguished. 

So word can be viewed as 

1. The lexeme. 

What would you do if you were reading a book and you encountered the 'word' pockled for the first time in this context?

You would probably look up that unfamiliar word in a dictionary, not under pockled, but under pockle. This is because you know that pockled is not going to be listed in the dictionary. 

Let's refer to the 'word' in this sense of abstract vocabulary item using the term lexeme.

Then what is lexeme?

Refers to abstract vocabulary words listed in a dictionary. 

They are sometimes called independent words .

Let's look this example 

The lexeme                  The physical word-forms 

a) SEE                         sees, seeing, saw, seen

b) SLEEP                     sleeping, slept.

In example a and b above the words written in capital letters are the lexeme which should be written in capital letters. And the words written in small letters are the realisation of the lexeme. They all share a core meaning although they are spelled and pronounced differently.

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2.Word-form