Morphology
is a branch of linguistics which studies the form, inner structure,
function, and patterns of occurrence of a morpheme
as
the smallest meaningful unit of language.
The
term morphology
(Gr. morphé
‘form, shape’ and lógos
‘study’)
was borrowed from biology by the German writer J. W. von Goethe in
the 19th century; it was taken up by linguistics to designate the
study of form and structure of living organisms as a cover term for
inflection and word formation.
Theoretical
foundations of morphology were laid in Aristotle’s grammars and
Stoics’ works, who were the first to define four parts of speech
(the noun, the verb, the conjunction, and the link), introduced the
notions of case, gender system of nouns, the system of verbal tenses.
The
fundamental principles of modern European grammars were established
by Aristotle’s disciple Dionysus
from
Fracia
(II
c. BC),
who singled out eight parts of speech (the noun, the verb, the
participle, the link, the pronoun, the preposition, the adverb, and
the conjunction).
In
the 19th c. interest in morphology was stimulated by the development
of approaches to world languages
classification resulting in the study of general
laws of structure and
significant
elements such as prefixes and
inflections.
In
the 20th c. the
field of
morphology has
been narrowed
to the study of the internal structure of words.
The
structure of English words:
A
morpheme
(Gr.
morphé
‘form, shape’)
is one of the fundamental units of a language, a minimum sign that is
an association of a
given meaning
with a
given form
(sound and graphic), e.g. old,
un+happy, grow+th,
blue+colour+ed.
Depending
on the number of morphemes, words are divided into:
monomorphic
are root-words consisting of only one root-morpheme, i.e. simple
words, e.g. to
grow, a book, white, fast
etc.
polymorphic
are words consisting of at least one root-morpheme and a number of
derivational affixes, i.e. derivatives, compounds, e.g.
good-looking,
employee, blue-eyed
etc.
Types
of morphemes:
An
allomorph
(a morphemic
variant)
(Gr. állos ‘different’ and morphé
‘form,
shape’) is a phonetically conditioned positional variant of the
same derivational or functional morpheme identical in meaning and
function and differing in sound only insomuch, as their complementary
distribution
produces various phonetic assimilation effects, e.g. please /pli:z/
pleasure /pleʒ/
pleasant /plez/.
Complementary
distribution
takes place when two linguistic variants cannot appear in the same
environment, e.g. in-competent,
il-logical,
ir-responsible,
im-possible;
cat-s,
box-es;
organis-ation,
corrup-tion.
Contastive
distribution
characterises different morphemes occurring in the same linguistic
environment, but signaling different meanings, e.g. –able
in measurable
and –ed
in measured.
A
pseudo-morpheme
(a quasi-morpheme)
is a morpheme which has a differential
meaning and a distributional
meaning but does not possess any lexical
or functional
(part-of-speech) meaning, e.g. re-
and -tain
in retain,
con-
and
–ceive
in conceive
etc.
A
unique
morpheme
is an isolated
pseudo-morpheme
which does not occur in other words but is understood as meaningful
because the constituent morphemes display a more or less clear
denotational meaning, e.g. ham-
in hamlet
(cf. booklet,
ringlet),
cran-
in cranberry
(журавлина),
mul-
in
mulberry (шовковиця),
-et
in pocket
etc.
Structural
classification of morphemes:
free
morphemes
are morphemes which coincide with a word-form of an independently
functioning word; they can be found only
among roots, e.g. hero-
as in heroism,
event—
as in eventful;
bound
morphemes
are morphemes which do not coincide with a separate word-form; they
include all affixes, e.g. de-
as in decode,
-less
as in fearless,
-s
as in girls;
some root-morphemes, e.g. docu-
as in
document,
horr-
as
in horrible,
theor-
as in theory
etc;
semi-bound
(semi-free)
morphemes
are
morphemes which stand midway between a root and an affix; they can
function as an independent full-meaning word and an affix at the same
time, e.g. to speak ill
of sb – to be ill-dressed
/ ill-bred
/ ill-fed;
Semi-prefixes:
half-,
mini-, midi-, maxi-, self-, by-
etc.;
Semi-suffixes:
-man,
-like, -proof, -friendly, -oriented, -ware
etc
Semantic
classification of morphemes:
According
to the role
they play in the structure of words, morphemes fall into:
root
(radical)
morphemes
–
the
lexical nuclei of words which are characterised by individual lexical
meaning shared
by no other morpheme of the language; the root remains after the
removal of all functional and derivational affixes and does not admit
any further analysis, e.g teach—
in to
teach, teacher, teaching;
non-root
morphemes represented
by
inflectional
morphemes (inflections) and affixational morphemes (affixes).
According
to the position
in a word, affixational morphemes fall into:
prefixes
– derivational affixes standing before the stem and modifying its
meaning, e.g. ex-minister,
in-sensitive,
re-read
etc.; about 51 in the system of Modern English;
suffixes
– derivational affixes following the stem and forming a new
derivative within the same part of speech (e.g. king-dom,
book-let,
child-hood
etc.) or in a different word class (e.g. do-er,
wash-able,
sharp-en
etc.);
infixes
–
affixational
morphemes
placed
within a word, e.g –n–
in stand.
According
to their functions
and meaning,
affixes fall into:
derivational,
e.g. suffixes: abstract-noun-makers
(-age,
-dom, -ery, -ing, -ism);
concrete-noun-makers (-eer,
-er, -ess, -let);
adverb-makers (-ly,
-ward(s),
-wise);
verb-makers (-ate,
-en, -ify,
—ize/-ise);
adjective-/noun-makers (-ful,
-ese, -(i)an, -ist),
etc.; they are attached to a derivational
base;
they are the object of study of derivational
morphology
which investigates the way in which new items of vocabulary can be
built up out of combinations of elements;
functional
(inflectional), e.g. -s
(plurality; 3rd person singular); ‘s
(genitive case); —n’t
(contracted negative); -ed
(past tense; past participle); -ing
(present participle); -er,
-est
(comparison); they are attached to a morphological
stem;
they are the object of study of inflectional
morphology which
deals with the way words vary in their form in order to express a
grammatical contrast.
derivational
affixes
encode
lexical meaning;
are
syntactically irrelevant;
can
occur inside derivation;
often
change the part of speech;
are
often semantically opaque;
are
often restricted in their
productivity;
are
not restricted to suffixation.
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WORD STRUCTURE IN MODERN ENGLISH
I. The morphological structure of a word. Morphemes. Types of morphemes. Allomorphs.
II. Structural types of words.
III. Principles of morphemic analysis.
IV. Derivational level of analysis. Stems. Types of stems. Derivational types of words.
I. The morphological structure of a word. Morphemes. Types of Morphemes. Allomorphs.
There are two levels of approach to the study of word- structure: the level of morphemic analysis and the level of derivational or word-formation analysis.
Word is the principal and basic unit of the language system, the largest on the morphologic and the smallest on the syntactic plane of linguistic analysis.
It has been universally acknowledged that a great many words have a composite nature and are made up of morphemes, the basic units on the morphemic level, which are defined as the smallest indivisible two-facet language units.
The term morpheme is derived from Greek morphe “form ”+ -eme. The Greek suffix –eme has been adopted by linguistic to denote the smallest unit or the minimum distinctive feature.
The morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of form. A form in these cases a recurring discrete unit of speech. Morphemes occur in speech only as constituent parts of words, not independently, although a word may consist of single morpheme. Even a cursory examination of the morphemic structure of English words reveals that they are composed of morphemes of different types: root-morphemes and affixational morphemes. Words that consist of a root and an affix are called derived words or derivatives and are produced by the process of word building known as affixation (or derivation).
The root-morpheme is the lexical nucleus of the word; it has a very general and abstract lexical meaning common to a set of semantically related words constituting one word-cluster, e.g. (to) teach, teacher, teaching. Besides the lexical meaning root-morphemes possess all other types of meaning proper to morphemes except the part-of-speech meaning which is not found in roots.
Affixational morphemes include inflectional affixes or inflections and derivational affixes. Inflections carry only grammatical meaning and are thus relevant only for the formation of word-forms. Derivational affixes are relevant for building various types of words. They are lexically always dependent on the root which they modify. They possess the same types of meaning as found in roots, but unlike root-morphemes most of them have the part-of-speech meaning which makes them structurally the important part of the word as they condition the lexico-grammatical class the word belongs to. Due to this component of their meaning the derivational affixes are classified into affixes building different parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs.
Roots and derivational affixes are generally easily distinguished and the difference between them is clearly felt as, e.g., in the words helpless, handy, blackness, Londoner, refill, etc.: the root-morphemes help-, hand-, black-, London-, fill-, are understood as the lexical centers of the words, and –less, -y, -ness, -er, re- are felt as morphemes dependent on these roots.
Distinction is also made of free and bound morphemes.
Free morphemes coincide with word-forms of independently functioning words. It is obvious that free morphemes can be found only among roots, so the morpheme boy- in the word boy is a free morpheme; in the word undesirable there is only one free morpheme desire-; the word pen-holder has two free morphemes pen- and hold-. It follows that bound morphemes are those that do not coincide with separate word- forms, consequently all derivational morphemes, such as –ness, -able, -er are bound. Root-morphemes may be both free and bound. The morphemes theor- in the words theory, theoretical, or horr- in the words horror, horrible, horrify; Angl- in Anglo-Saxon; Afr- in Afro-Asian are all bound roots as there are no identical word-forms.
It should also be noted that morphemes may have different phonemic shapes. In the word-cluster please , pleasing , pleasure , pleasant the phonemic shapes of the word stand in complementary distribution or in alternation with each other. All the representations of the given morpheme, that manifest alternation are called allomorphs/or morphemic variants/ of that morpheme.
The combining form allo- from Greek allos “other” is used in linguistic terminology to denote elements of a group whose members together consistute a structural unit of the language (allophones, allomorphs). Thus, for example, -ion/ -tion/ -sion/ -ation are the positional variants of the same suffix, they do not differ in meaning or function but show a slight difference in sound form depending on the final phoneme of the preceding stem. They are considered as variants of one and the same morpheme and called its allomorphs.
Allomorph is defined as a positional variant of a morpheme occurring in a specific environment and so characterized by complementary description.
Complementary distribution is said to take place, when two linguistic variants cannot appear in the same environment.
Different morphemes are characterized by contrastive distribution, i.e. if they occur in the same environment they signal different meanings. The suffixes –able and –ed, for instance, are different morphemes, not allomorphs, because adjectives in –able mean “ capable of beings”.
Allomorphs will also occur among prefixes. Their form then depends on the initials of the stem with which they will assimilate.
Two or more sound forms of a stem existing under conditions of complementary distribution may also be regarded as allomorphs, as, for instance, in long a: length n.
II. Structural types of words.
The morphological analysis of word- structure on the morphemic level aims at splitting the word into its constituent morphemes – the basic units at this level of analysis – and at determining their number and types. The four types (root words, derived words, compound, shortenings) represent the main structural types of Modern English words, and conversion, derivation and composition the most productive ways of word building.
According to the number of morphemes words can be classified into monomorphic and polymorphic. Monomorphic or root-words consist of only one root-morpheme, e.g. small, dog, make, give, etc. All polymorphic word fall into two subgroups: derived words and compound words – according to the number of root-morphemes they have. Derived words are composed of one root-morpheme and one or more derivational morphemes, e.g. acceptable, outdo, disagreeable, etc. Compound words are those which contain at least two root-morphemes, the number of derivational morphemes being insignificant. There can be both root- and derivational morphemes in compounds as in pen-holder, light-mindedness, or only root-morphemes as in lamp-shade, eye-ball, etc.
These structural types are not of equal importance. The clue to the correct understanding of their comparative value lies in a careful consideration of: 1)the importance of each type in the existing wordstock, and 2) their frequency value in actual speech. Frequency is by far the most important factor. According to the available word counts made in different parts of speech, we find that derived words numerically constitute the largest class of words in the existing wordstock; derived nouns comprise approximately 67% of the total number, adjectives about 86%, whereas compound nouns make about 15% and adjectives about 4%. Root words come to 18% in nouns, i.e. a trifle more than the number of compound words; adjectives root words come to approximately 12%.
But we cannot fail to perceive that root-words occupy a predominant place. In English, according to the recent frequency counts, about 60% of the total number of nouns and 62% of the total number of adjectives in current use are root-words. Of the total number of adjectives and nouns, derived words comprise about 38% and 37% respectively while compound words comprise an insignificant 2% in nouns and 0.2% in adjectives. Thus it is the root-words that constitute the foundation and the backbone of the vocabulary and that are of paramount importance in speech. It should also be mentioned that root words are characterized by a high degree of collocability and a complex variety of meanings in contrast with words of other structural types whose semantic structures are much poorer. Root- words also serve as parent forms for all types of derived and compound words.
III. Principles of morphemic analysis.
In most cases the morphemic structure of words is transparent enough and individual morphemes clearly stand out within the word. The segmentation of words is generally carried out according to the method of Immediate and Ultimate Constituents. This method is based on the binary principle, i.e. each stage of the procedure involves two components the word immediately breaks into. At each stage these two components are referred to as the Immediate Constituents. Each Immediate Constituent at the next stage of analysis is in turn broken into smaller meaningful elements. The analysis is completed when we arrive at constituents incapable of further division, i.e. morphemes. These are referred to Ultimate Constituents.
A synchronic morphological analysis is most effectively accomplished by the procedure known as the analysis into Immediate Constituents. ICs are the two meaningful parts forming a large linguistic unity.
The method is based on the fact that a word characterized by morphological divisibility is involved in certain structural correlations. To sum up: as we break the word we obtain at any level only ICs one of which is the stem of the given word. All the time the analysis is based on the patterns characteristic of the English vocabulary. As a pattern showing the interdependence of all the constituents segregated at various stages, we obtain the following formula:
un+ { [ ( gent- + -le ) + -man ] + -ly}
Breaking a word into its Immediate Constituents we observe in each cut the structural order of the constituents.
A diagram presenting the four cuts described looks as follows:
1. un- / gentlemanly
2. un- / gentleman / — ly
3. un- / gentle / — man / — ly
4. un- / gentl / — e / — man / — ly
A similar analysis on the word-formation level showing not only the morphemic constituents of the word but also the structural pattern on which it is built.
The analysis of word-structure at the morphemic level must proceed to the stage of Ultimate Constituents. For example, the noun friendliness is first segmented into the ICs: [frendlı-] recurring in the adjectives friendly-looking and friendly and [-nıs] found in a countless number of nouns, such as unhappiness, blackness, sameness, etc. the IC [-nıs] is at the same time an UC of the word, as it cannot be broken into any smaller elements possessing both sound-form and meaning. Any further division of –ness would give individual speech-sounds which denote nothing by themselves. The IC [frendlı-] is next broken into the ICs [-lı] and [frend-] which are both UCs of the word.
Morphemic analysis under the method of Ultimate Constituents may be carried out on the basis of two principles: the so-called root-principle and affix principle.
According to the affix principle the splitting of the word into its constituent morphemes is based on the identification of the affix within a set of words, e.g. the identification of the suffix –er leads to the segmentation of words singer, teacher, swimmer into the derivational morpheme – er and the roots teach- , sing-, drive-.
According to the root-principle, the segmentation of the word is based on the identification of the root-morpheme in a word-cluster, for example the identification of the root-morpheme agree- in the words agreeable, agreement, disagree.
As a rule, the application of these principles is sufficient for the morphemic segmentation of words.
However, the morphemic structure of words in a number of cases defies such analysis, as it is not always so transparent and simple as in the cases mentioned above. Sometimes not only the segmentation of words into morphemes, but the recognition of certain sound-clusters as morphemes become doubtful which naturally affects the classification of words. In words like retain, detain, contain or receive, deceive, conceive, perceive the sound-clusters [rı-], [dı-] seem to be singled quite easily, on the other hand, they undoubtedly have nothing in common with the phonetically identical prefixes re-, de- as found in words re-write, re-organize, de-organize, de-code. Moreover, neither the sound-cluster [rı-] or [dı-], nor the [-teın] or [-sı:v] possess any lexical or functional meaning of their own. Yet, these sound-clusters are felt as having a certain meaning because [rı-] distinguishes retain from detain and [-teın] distinguishes retain from receive.
It follows that all these sound-clusters have a differential and a certain distributional meaning as their order arrangement point to the affixal status of re-, de-, con-, per- and makes one understand —tain and –ceive as roots. The differential and distributional meanings seem to give sufficient ground to recognize these sound-clusters as morphemes, but as they lack lexical meaning of their own, they are set apart from all other types of morphemes and are known in linguistic literature as pseudo- morphemes. Pseudo- morphemes of the same kind are also encountered in words like rusty-fusty.
IV. Derivational level of analysis. Stems. Types of Stems. Derivational types of word.
The morphemic analysis of words only defines the constituent morphemes, determining their types and their meaning but does not reveal the hierarchy of the morphemes comprising the word. Words are no mere sum totals of morpheme, the latter reveal a definite, sometimes very complex interrelation. Morphemes are arranged according to certain rules, the arrangement differing in various types of words and particular groups within the same types. The pattern of morpheme arrangement underlies the classification of words into different types and enables one to understand how new words appear in the language. These relations within the word and the interrelations between different types and classes of words are known as derivative or word- formation relations.
The analysis of derivative relations aims at establishing a correlation between different types and the structural patterns words are built on. The basic unit at the derivational level is the stem.
The stem is defined as that part of the word which remains unchanged throughout its paradigm, thus the stem which appears in the paradigm (to) ask ( ), asks, asked, asking is ask-; thestem of the word singer ( ), singer’s, singers, singers’ is singer-. It is the stem of the word that takes the inflections which shape the word grammatically as one or another part of speech.
The structure of stems should be described in terms of IC’s analysis, which at this level aims at establishing the patterns of typical derivative relations within the stem and the derivative correlation between stems of different types.
There are three types of stems: simple, derived and compound.
Simple stems are semantically non-motivated and do not constitute a pattern on analogy with which new stems may be modeled. Simple stems are generally monomorphic and phonetically identical with the root morpheme. The derivational structure of stems does not always coincide with the result of morphemic analysis. Comparison proves that not all morphemes relevant at the morphemic level are relevant at the derivational level of analysis. It follows that bound morphemes and all types of pseudo- morphemes are irrelevant to the derivational structure of stems as they do not meet requirements of double opposition and derivative interrelations. So the stem of such words as retain, receive, horrible, pocket, motion, etc. should be regarded as simple, non- motivated stems.
Derived stems are built on stems of various structures though which they are motivated, i.e. derived stems are understood on the basis of the derivative relations between their IC’s and the correlated stems. The derived stems are mostly polymorphic in which case the segmentation results only in one IC that is itself a stem, the other IC being necessarily a derivational affix.
Derived stems are not necessarily polymorphic.
Compound stems are made up of two IC’s, both of which are themselves stems, for example match-box, driving-suit, pen-holder, etc. It is built by joining of two stems, one of which is simple, the other derived.
In more complex cases the result of the analysis at the two levels sometimes seems even to contracted one another.
The derivational types of words are classified according to the structure of their stems into simple, derived and compound words.
Derived words are those composed of one root- morpheme and one or more derivational morpheme.
Compound words contain at least two root- morphemes, the number of derivational morphemes being insignificant.
Derivational compound is a word formed by a simultaneous process of composition and derivational.
Compound words proper are formed by joining together stems of word already available in the language.
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Morphological Structure of English Words
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The word as an autonomous unit of the language system should be distinguished from another fundamental language unit – the morpheme.
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A morpheme
Is an association of a given meaning with a given sound pattern, which makes it similar to a word.
Unlike a word, a morpheme is not autonomous, morphemes occur in speech only as constituent parts of words.
Cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units, so it is defined as the minimum meaningful unit of the language system. -
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According to their form
Morphemes
Free
Bound
Semi-bound
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Free morphemes
Are capable of forming words without adding other morphemes, which means that they coincide with the stems or independent forms of words:
House- (morpheme) = house (word)
Shoe- (morpheme) = shoe (word)
Bread- (morpheme) = bread (word) -
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Bound morphemes
May not stand alone without a loss or change of their meaning, they are always bound to something else. It means that they do not coincide with stems or independent forms of words:
Horr- (morpheme) – horr-or (word)
Agit- (morpheme) – agit-ate (word)
Nat- (morpheme) – nat-ion (word)
-Ible (morpheme) – elig-ible (word)
Pre- (morpheme) – pre-war (word) -
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Free and Bound morphemes
Prefixes and suffixes (jointly called derivational affixes) are always bound
Root morphemes may be both free and bound
Bound root morphemes are mainly found among loan words: arrog-ance, char-ity, cour-age, dis-tort, in-volve, toler-able, etc. -
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Semi-bound (semi-free) morphemes
Can function in a morphemic sequence both as an affix and as a free morpheme:
E.g., the morphemes «well» and «half» can occur as free morphemes (cf. sleep well, half an hour) or as bound morphemes (cf. well-known, half-done) -
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According to their role in constructing words
Morphemes
Roots
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According to their position in a word
Affixes
Prefixes
Suffixes
Infixes
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According to their function and meaning
Affixes
Derivational
Functional
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A stem
When a derivational or functional affix is stripped from the word, what remains is a stem (a stem base)
If a stem consists of a single morpheme, it is simple (heart, fact, month, red, etc.)
If a stem consists of a root and an affix, it is derived (hearty, factual, monthly, reddish, etc.)
If a stem consists of two root morphemes (and an affix / affixes), it is compound (teaspoon, mother-in-law, dog-owner, looking-glass, etc.) -
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A root
Is the main morphemic vehicle of a given idea in a given language at a given stage of its development
Is the ultimate constituent element which remains after the removal of all functional and derivational affixes and does not admit any further analysis
Is the common element of words within a word-cluster (cf. heart, hearten, dishearten, heartily, heartless, hearty, heartiness, sweetheart, heart-broken, etc.) -
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A root
The etymological treatment of root morphemes encourages a search for cognates (elements descended from a common ancestor):
Heart (English) – cor (Latin) – kardia (Greek) – corazon (Spanish) – Herz (German) – сердце (Russian), etc. -
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A suffix
Is a derivational morpheme following the stem and forming a new derivative in a different part of speech or a different word class: luck – luck-y – luck-i-ly -
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A prefix
Is a derivational morpheme standing before the root and modifying the meaning of the original word: happy – unhappy, president – ex-president, argument – counter-argument, etc. -
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A prefix
Prefixes do not generally change the part-of-speech meaning of the resultant word
An exception to the rule is the formation of some verbs and statives: friend, n – befriend, v; earth, n – unearth (выкапывать, вырывать из земли, доставать из-под земли), v; sleep, n – asleep (stative), etc. -
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An infix
Is an affix placed within the word: -n- in «stand» (this type is not productive). -
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Combining forms
Affixes should not be confused with combining forms
A combining form is a bound form that is distinguished from an affix historically by the fact that it is always borrowed from another language in which it existed as a free or combining form. -
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Combining forms
Most combining forms were borrowed from Latin and Greek (however, not exclusively) and have thus become international:
Cyclo- (from Greek «kuklos» — circle): cyclometer, cyclopedia, cyclic, bicycle, etc.
Mal- (from French «mal» — bad): malfunction, malnutrition, etc.
Compound and derivative words which these combining forms are part of never existed in their original language but were coined only in modern times. -
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Morphemic and Structural Analysis of English Words
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Morphemic analysis
Implies stating the number and type of morphemes that make up the word:
Girl (one root morpheme) – a root word
Girlish (one root morpheme plus one affix) – a derived word
Girl-friend (two stems) – a compound word
Last-minuter (two stems and a common affix) – a compound derivative -
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Structural word-formation analysis
Studies the structural correlation with other words as well as the structural patterns or rules on which words are built
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Structural word-formation analysis
A correlation is a set of binary oppositions, in which each second element is derived from the first by a general rule valid for all members of the relation:
Child – childish
Woman – womanish
Monkey – monkeyish
Spinster – spinsterish, etc. -
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Structural word-formation analysis
This correlation demonstrates that
in English there is a type of derived adjectives consisting of a noun stem and a suffix –ish;
the stems are mostly those of animate nouns;
any one word built according to this pattern contains a semantic component common to the whole group, namely «typical of, or having the bad qualities of». -
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Morphological Analysis of English Words
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A synchronic morphological analysis (introduced by
L. Bloomfield)
Is accomplished by the procedure known as the analysis into immediate constituents
The main opposition here is the opposition of stem and affix which reveals the motivation of the word -
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A synchronic morphological analysis
Ungentlemanly
Un-
gentlemanly
gentleman
ly
gentle
man
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le -
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A synchronic morphological analysis
Un- is split after the pattern: un- + adjective stem (uncertain, unconscious, uneasy, unearthly, untimely, unwomanly, etc.);
-Ly is split following the pattern: noun stem + -ly (womanly, masterly, scholarly, etc.);
Gentleman is split into gentle- + -man after a similar pattern observed in «nobleman» (adjective stem + the semi-affix -man)
Gentle is split into gent- + -le following the pattern: noun stem + -le (brittle, fertile, juvenile, noble, subtle, little, etc.) -
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A synchronic morphological analysis
The constituents that allow further splitting into morphemes are called immediate (gentlemanly, gentleman, gentle),
Those that don’t allow this are termed ultimate (un-, -ly, gent-, le-, -man). -
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A synchronic morphological analysis
The procedure of the analysis into immediate constituents is reduced to the recognition and classification of the same and different morphemes as well as same and different patterns: thus it permits the tracing and understanding of the vocabulary system. -
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MORPHEMIC STRUCTURE OF THE WORD
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T he morpheme is the elementary meaningful lingual unit built up from phonemes and used to make words.
It has meaning, but its meaning is abstract, significative, not concrete, or nominative, as is that of the word.
Morphemes constitute the words; they do not exist outside the words. Studying the morpheme we actually study the word: its inner structure, its functions, and the ways it enters speech.
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Stating the differences between the word and the morpheme, we have to admit that the correlation between the word and the morpheme is problematic.
The borderlines between the morpheme and the word are by no means rigid and there is a set of intermediary units (half-words — half-morphemes), which form an area of transitions (a continuum) between the word and the morpheme as the polar phenomena.
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This includes the so-called “morpheme-like” functional, or auxiliary words, for example, auxiliary verbs and adverbs, articles, particles, prepositions and conjunctions : they are realized as isolated, separate units (their separateness being fixed in written practice) but perform various grammatical functions; in other words, they function like morphemes and are dependent semantically to a greater or lesser extent. Cf..: Jack ’s, a boy, have done.
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This approach to treating various lingual units is known in linguistics as “ a field approach ” : polar phenomena possessing the unambiguous characteristic features of the opposed units constitute “ the core ”, or “the center” of the field, while the intermediary phenomena combining some of the characteristics of the poles make up “ the periphery ” of the field; e.g.: functional words make up the periphery of the class of words since their functioning is close to the functioning of morphemes.
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In traditional grammar, the study of the morphemic structure of the word is based on two criteria: the positional criterion — the location of the morphemes with regard to each other,
and the semantic (or functional ) criterion — the contribution of the morphemes to the general meaning of the word.
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According to these criteria morphemes are divided into root-morphemes ( roots ) and affixal morphemes ( affixes ).
Roots express the concrete, “material” part of the meaning of the word and constitute its central part.
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Affixes express the specificational part of the meaning of the word: they specify, or transform the meaning of the root.
Affixal specification may be of two kinds: of lexical or grammatical character.
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So, according to the semantic criterion affixes are further subdivided into lexical, or word-building (derivational) affixes, which together with the root constitute the stem of the word, and grammatical, or word-changing affixes, expressing different morphological categories, such as number, case, tense and others.
With the help of lexical affixes new words are derived, or built;
with the help of grammatical affixes the form of the word is changed.
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According to the positional criterion affixes are divided into prefixes, situated before the root in the word, e.g.: under -estimate, and suffixes, situated after the root, e.g.: underestim — ate.
Prefixes in English are only lexical : the word underestimate is derived from the word estimate with the help of the prefix under-.
Suffixes in English may be either lexical or grammatical ; e.g. in the word underestimates — ate is a lexical suffix, because it is used to derive the verb estimate (v) from the noun esteem (n), and –s is a grammatical suffix making the 3rd person, singular form of the verb to underestimate.
Grammatical suffixes are also called inflexions ( inflections, inflectional endings ).
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Grammatical suffixes in English have certain peculiarities, which make them different from inflections in other languages: since they are the remnants of the old inflectional system, there are few (only six) remaining word-changing suffixes in English: -(e)s, — ed, — ing, — er, — est, — en ;
most of them are homonymous, e.g. -(e)s is used to form the plural of the noun (dogs ), the genitive of the noun (my friend’s), and the 3rd person singular of the verb ( works); some of them have lost their inflectional properties and can be attached to units larger than the word, e.g.: his daughter Mary’s arrival.
That is why the term “inflection” is seldom used to denote the grammatical components of words in English.
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Grammatical suffixes form word-changing, or morphological paradigms of words, which can be observed to their full extent in inflectional languages, such as Russian, e.g.: стол – стола – столу – столом — о столе ; morphological paradigms exist, though not on the same scale, in English too, e.g., the number paradigm of the noun: boy — boys.
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Lexical affixes are primarily studied by lexicology with regard to the meaning which they contribute to the general meaning of the whole word. In grammar word-building suffixes are studied as the formal marks of the words belonging to different parts of speech; they form lexical (word-building, derivational) paradigms of words united by a common root, cf.: to decide — decision — decisive — decisively to incise — incision — incisive — incisively
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Being the formal marks of words of different parts of speech, word-building suffixes are also grammatically relevant. But grammar study is primarily concerned with grammatical, word-changing, or functional affixes, because they change the word according to its grammatical categories and serve to insert the word into an utterance.
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The morphemic structure of the word can be analyzed in a linear way; for example, in the following way: underestimates — W= {[ Pr +(R+L)]+Gr}, where W denotes the word, R the root, L the lexical suffix, Pr the prefix, and Gr the grammatical suffix. In addition, the derivational history of the word can be hierarchically demonstrated as the so-called “tree of immediate constituents”; such analysis is called “IC-analysis”, IC standing for the “immediate constituents”. E.g.:
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W __________
St 1 G____________
P St 2____________________
R L under/ estim / ate/ s
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IC-analysis, like many other ideas employed in the study of the morphemes, was developed by an American linguist, Leonard Bloomfield, and his followers within the framework of an approach known as Descriptive Linguistics (or, Structural Linguistics).
Immediate constituents analysis in structural linguistics starts with lingual units of upper levels : for example, the immediate constituents of a composite sentence might be clauses, each clause in turn might have noun phrase and verb phrase as constituents, etc.; the analysis continues until the ultimate constituents – the morphemes – are reached.
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Besides prefixes and suffixes, some other positional types of affix are distinguished in linguistics :
for example, regular vowel interchange which takes place inside the root and transforms its meaning “from within” can be treated as an infix, e.g.: a lexical infix – blood – to bleed ; a grammatical infix – tooth – teeth.
Grammatical infixes are also defined as inner inflections as opposed to grammatical suffixes which are called outer inflections.
Since infixation is not a productive (regular) means of word-building or word-changing in modern English, it is more often seen as partial suppletivity. Full suppletivity takes place when completely different roots are paradigmatically united, e.g.: go – went.
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When studying morphemes, we should distinguish morphemes as generalized lingual units from their concrete manifestations, or variants in specific textual environments; variants of morphemes are called “ allo -morphs ”.
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Initially, the so-called allo -emic theory was developed in phonetics: in phonetics, phonemes, as the generalized, invariant phonological units, are distinguished from their concrete realizations, the allophones.
For example, one phoneme is pronounced in a different way in different environments, cf.: you [ ju :] — you know [ ju ] ; in Russian, vowels are also pronounced in a different way in stressed and unstressed syllables, cf.: д о м — д о мой.
The same applies to the morpheme, which is a generalized unit, an invariant, and may be represented by different variants, allo -morphs, in different textual environments.
For example, the morpheme of the plural, -(e)s, sounds differently after voiceless consonants ( bats ), voiced consonants and vowels ( rooms ), and after fricative and sibilant consonants ( clashes ). So, [s], [z], [ iz ], which are united by the same meaning (the grammatical meaning of the plural), are allo -morphs of the same morpheme, which is represented as -(e)s in written speech.
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The “ allo -emic theory” in the study of morphemes was also developed within the framework of Descriptive Linguistics by means of the so-called distributional analysis :
in the first stage of distributional analysis a syntagmatic chain of lingual units is divided into meaningful segments, morphs, e.g.: he/ start/ ed / laugh/ ing /;
then the recurrent segments are analyzed in various textual environments, and the following three types of distribution are established: contrastive distribution, non-contrastive distribution and complementary distribution.
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The morphs are said to be in contrastive distribution if they express different meanings in identical environments the compared morphs, e.g.: He start ed laughing – He start s laughing ; such morphs constitute different morphemes.
The morphs are said to be in non-contrastive distribution if they express identical meaning in identical environments ; such morphs constitute ‘free variants’ of the same morpheme, e.g.: learn ed — learn t, ate [et] – ate [ eit ] (in Russian: трактор а – трактор ы ).
The morphs are said to be in complementary distribution if they express identical meanings in different environments, e.g.: He start ed laughing – He stopp ed laughing ; such morphs constitute variants, or allo -morphs of the same morpheme.
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The allo -morphs of the plural morpheme -(e)s [s], [z], [ iz ] stand in phonemic complementary distribution; the allo -morph – en, as in oxen, stands in morphemic complementary distribution with the other allo -morphs of the plural morpheme.
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Besides these traditional types of morphemes, in Descriptive Linguistics distributional morpheme types are distinguished; they immediately correlate with each other in the following pairs.
Free morphemes, which can build up words by themselves, are opposed to bound morphemes, used only as parts of words; e.g.: in the word ‘ hands’ hand- is a free morpheme and -s is a bound morpheme.
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Overt and covert morphemes are opposed to each other: the latter shows the meaningful absence of a morpheme distinguished in the opposition of grammatical forms in paradigms; it is also known as the “zero morpheme”, e.g.: in the number paradigm of the noun, hand – hands, the plural is built with the help of an overt morpheme, hand-s, while the singular — with the help of a zero or covert morpheme, handØ.
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Full or meaningful morphemes are opposed to empty morphemes, which have no meaning and are left after singling out the meaningful morphemes; some of them used to have a certain meaning, but lost it in the course of historical development, e.g.: in the word ‘children’ child- is the root of the word, bearing the core of the meaning, — en is the suffix of the plural, while -r- is an empty morpheme, having no meaning at all, the remnant of an old morphological form.
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Segmental morphemes, consisting of phonemes, are opposed to supra-segmental morphemes, which leave the phonemic content of the word unchanged, but the meaning of the word is specified with the help of various supra-segmental lingual units, e.g.: `convert (a noun) — con`vert (a verb).
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Additive morphemes, which are freely combined in a word, e.g.: look+ed, small+er, are opposed to replacive morphemes, or root morphemes, which replace each other in paradigms, e.g.: sing -sang – sung.
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Continuous morphemes, combined with each other in the same word, e.g.: work ed, are opposed to discontinuous morphemes, which consist of two components used jointly to build the analytical forms of the words, e.g.: have work ed, is work ing.
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Many of the distributional morpheme types contradict the traditional definition of the morpheme : traditionally the morpheme is the smallest meaningful lingual unit (this is contradicted by the “empty” morphemes type), built up by phonemes (this is contradicted by the “supra-segmental” morphemes type), used to build up words (this is contradicted by the “discontinuous” morphemes type).
This is due to the fact that in Descriptive Linguistics only three lingual units are distinguished: the phoneme, the morpheme, and syntactic constructions; the notion of the word is rejected because of the difficulties of defining it.
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Still, the classification of distributional morpheme types can be used to summarize and differentiate various types of word-building and word-changing, though not all of them are morphemic in the current mainstream understanding of the term “morpheme”.
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