Word meaning and meaning of morphemes

A
morpheme is a segment of a word regularly recurrent in other words
and having the same meaning in all of its recurrences. Morphemes have
lexical, part-of-speech, differential and distributional meanings.

The
lexical meaning of roots
.
Root morphemes possess a kind of generalized lexical meaning
which
differs
from that of affixes. 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
.

The
meaning of affixes
.
The meaning of affixes is purely sinificative. For example, the
suffix —en
carries the meaning ‘the change of quality’. Verbs formed with
the help of this suffix express the idea that someone or something
has more of a quality than it had previously. If, for example, a
river deepens,
it becomes deeper
than it was before, and if something strengthens
a person or group, they become more powerful and secure, or more
likely to succeed.

As
in words the meaning in morphemes may also be analyzed into
denotational and connotational components. For example, endearing and
diminutive suffixes, such as -ette
(kitchenette,
luncheonette);
ie
(y)
(dearie,
girlie
);
-ling
(duckling,
wolfling
)
bear
a heavy emotive charge. Morphemes —ly,
-like
,
-ish

in the words womanly,
womanlike
,
womanish

have the same denotational meaning of similarity but differ in the
connotational component (cf. the Russian equivalents: женственный
женский
бабий).

The
differential meaning

is the semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from
other in words containing the same (identical) morphemes. For
example, in the word note-book
the morpheme note-
serves to distinguish the word from other words: exercise-book,
copy-book
,
bookshelf
,
bookcase
.

The
distributional meaning

is found in all words having more than one morpheme. It is found in
the arrangement and order of morphemes making up the word. For
example, the word teacher
is composed of two morphemes teach-
and —er
both of which possess the denotational meaning – ‘to give
instruction or lessons’ and ‘the doer of the action’. A
different arrangement of the same morphemes *erteach
would make the word meaningless.
More examples, playboy
– boy-play
,
pot flower – flowerpot
,
board school – school board
.

The
part-of-speech
(functional)
meaning

is indicative of the part of speech to which a derivational word
belongs. If we see the words with the suffixes -ment,
-er
,
-ity
,
-or
,
we say that they are nouns, e.g. establishment,
plurality
,
teacher
,
translator
,
sailor
.
If -ful,
-less
,
-able
,
-al

etc. are present in words we say the words are adjectives, e.g.
helpful,
handless
,
guiltless
,
readable
,
national
,
writable
,
operational
,
openable
,
proposal
.

Pseudo-morpheme
– is a morpheme which has a differential and distributional meaning
but doesn’t possess any lexical or part-of-speech meaning.
For example, in the words retain,
detain
,
contain

and receive,
deceive
,
conceive
,
the clusters re-,
de-
,
con-

(having nothing in common with the phonetically identical prefixes
re-,
de-
in
the words rewrite,
reorganize
,
deodorize
,
decode
)
and

tain,
-ceive

have no lexical meaning. However they have a differential meaning
because re-
distinguishes retain
from detain,
and —tain
distinguishes retain
from receive.
They also have a distributional meaning as their order points at the
affixal status of re-,
de-
,
con-

and makes one understand —tain,
-ceive

as roots. But as they lack any lexical meaning of their own, they can
be characterizes as pseudo-morphemes. There to approaches to the
problem. Some linguists recognize pseudo-morphemes and regard word
like retain,
detain
,
receive
,
deceive
as
polymorphic derived (affixed) words; others do not recognize
pseudo-morphemes and treat these words as monomorphic.

Unique
root

is a pseudo-morpheme since it has no lexical meaning, but it carries
a differential meaning and a distributional meaning that doesn’t
occur in other words, whereas is a word, containing a unique root,
other morphemes display a more or less clear lexical meaning, e.g.
hamlet,
cran
berry,
goose
berry,
mul
berry,
comet.

There’s
a close connection between the type of meaning in morphemes and the
type of morphemic segmentability. A great number of words are
characterized by complete
segmentability
.
In this case individual morphemes clearly stand out within the word
and can be easily isolated, their meaning is transparent, e.g.
endless
,
useless
.
Conditional
segmentability

is typical for words whose component morphemes are pseudo-morphemes.
Defective
segmentability

is the property of words whose component morphemes are unique ones.

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.

If
the analysis is limited to stating the number and the types of
morphemes that make up a word, it is referred to as morphemic.
For example, the word underestimates
may
be analyzed into four morphemes: the root —estim-,
the prefix under-,
lexical suffix —ate
and grammatical suffix —s.
The morphemic analysis establishes the morphemes that make up the
word, regardless of their role in the formation of this word. In
other words, the morphemic analysis only defines the morphemes (their
number and types) comprising a word, but doesn’t reveal their
hierarchy.

The
morphemic structure of the word is being established by the method of
immediate
constituents analysis
.
This method is based on a binary principle which means that at each
stage the word is broken into the components (immediate
constituents
)
after that these components are broken further into two other
components. When the components can’t be further divided and the
analysis is completed we have arrived at the ultimate
constituents

– the morphemic structure of the word. For example, the morphemic
structure of the word
underestimates
can
be represented as a linear structure
in
the following way:
W=
{[Pr +(R+L)]+Gr}, or as a hierarchical structure of Immediate
Constituents (Diagram 13).

Diagram
13.

Word




St
1(underestimate-) Gr.
Suf. (-s)

Pref
(under-)
St 2(-estimate)


R
(estim-)
Lex. Suf.(-ate)

Derivational
analysis

studies the structural patterns and rules on which words are built.
Analyzing the word-formation structure of a word one tries to answer
the question: What was formed from what? One studies the last
word-formation act, the result of which is this or that unit. For
example, in the word Oxbridgian
the last word formation act was suffixation (Oxbridge
+ -ian
),
but in the previous word-formation act telescoping took place (Oxford
+ Cambridge
).
The verb to
dognap

is back formation from the word dognapping
which
was
formed by analogy with kidnapping.

The
nature, type and arrangement of the ICs (immediate constituent –
непосредственная составляющая) of the
word is known as its derivative
structure
.
Though the derivative structure of the word is closely connected with
its morphemic structure and often coincides with it, it differs from
it in principle.

According
to the derivative structure all words fall into two big classes:
simplexes or simple, non-derived words and complexes or derivatives.
Simplexes
are words which derivationally cannot be segmented into ICs. The
morphological stem of simple words, i.e. the part of the word which
takes on the system of grammatical inflections is semantically
non-motivated and independent of other words, e.g. hand,
come
,
blue
.
Derivatives
are words which depend on some other simpler lexical items that
motivate them structurally and semantically, i.e. the meaning and the
structure of the derivative is understood through the comparison with
the meaning and the structure of the source word. Hence derivatives
are secondary, motivated units, made up as a rule of two ICs, i.e.
binary units, e.g. words like friendliness,
unwifely
,
school-masterish
,
etc. The ICs are brought together according to specific rules of
order and arrangement preconditioned by the system of the language.
It follows that all derivatives are marked by the fixed order of
their ICs.

The basic elementary units of
the derivational structure of words are: derivational bases,
derivational affixes and derivational patterns.

The
derivational base

– is the part of the word from which the word was built. Types of
derivational bases:

  • bases
    that coincide with morphological stems – dutiful,
    dutifully;


bases that coincide with grammatical word-forms – unknown;


bases the coincide with word-groups – second-rateness.

Derivational
affixes

are ICs of the derived word in all parts of speech. Derivational
affixes are highly selective (the choice depends on etymological,
phonological, semantic and structural properties of the base):
blacken,
scribbler
,
novelist
,
befriend
,
enslave
,
brainless
.

The
derivational pattern

– is a regular meaningful arrangement, a structure that imposes
rigid rules on the order and the nature of the derivational bases and
affixes which may be brought together. According to structural
formulas all words may be classified into: 1) suffixal derivatives:
blackness;
2) prefixal derivatives: rewrite;
3) conversions: a cut;
4) compound words: music-lover.
Structural patterns specify the base classes and individual affixes
thus indicating the lexico-grammatical and lexical classes of derived
words. The affixes refer derivatives to specific parts of speech and
lexical subsets. For example, the derivational pattern noun
+ -ish → Adjective

signals a set of adjectives with the lexical meaning of resemblance,
e.g. girlish,
whereas adjective
+ -ish → Adjective

signals adjectives meaning a small degree of quality, e.g.
blackish
.

Derivational
relations are distinguished into:


derivative clusters – a set of derivatives that can be formed from
the same derivative base (friendship,
friendly
,
unfriendly
);


derivative row – is made up by the derivatives that represent
consecutive steps of the derivative from the initial derivative base
(friend
– friendly – unfriendly – unfriendliness
);

— derivative categories –
comprises derivations of different derivative patterns brought
together by the same generalized derivative meanings:

(Teacher) N=V+er

(Historian) N=N+an

(Activist) N=Adj+ist

(Author) N=N+or.

It
should be taken into consideration that the word-building meaning
which often depends on the affixal meaning or the number of bases is
not the same with the lexical meaning. For example, the word-building
meaning of the word writer
is ‘a  person or thing that performs an action specified by
the derivational base’. The lexical meaning reveals the character
of the action – a writer is ‘a person who writes’. The
word-building meaning unites words, derived according to the same
word-building model with the same semantic consequence, e.g.
brainstorming
and
blamestorming.
The group of words united by the same lexical meaning numbers words
built up according to different word-building patterns and entering
synonymic relation.

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Morphology is the study of words, word formation, and the relationship between words. In Morphology, we look at morphemes — the smallest lexical items of meaning. Studying morphemes helps us to understand the meaning, structure, and etymology (history) of words.

Morphemes: meaning

The word morphemes from the Greek morphḗ, meaning ‘shape, form‘. Morphemes are the smallest lexical items of meaning or grammatical function that a word can be broken down to. Morphemes are usually, but not always, words.

Look at the following examples of morphemes:

These words cannot be made shorter than they already are or they would stop being words or lose their meaning.

For example, ‘house’ cannot be split into ho- and -us’ as they are both meaningless.

However, not all morphemes are words.

For example, ‘s’ is not a word, but it is a morpheme; ‘s’ shows plurality and means ‘more than one’.

The word ‘books’ is made up of two morphemes: book + s.

Morphemes play a fundamental role in the structure and meaning of language, and understanding them can help us to better understand the words we use and the rules that govern their use.

How to identify a morpheme

You can identify morphemes by seeing if the word or letters in question meet the following criteria:

  • Morphemes must have meaning. E.g. the word ‘cat’ represents and small furry animal. The suffix ‘-s’ you might find at the end of the word ‘cat’ represents plurality.

  • Morphemes cannot be divided into smaller parts without losing or changing their meaning. E.g. dividing the word ‘cat’ into ‘ca’ leaves us with a meaningless set of letters. The word ‘at’ is a morpheme in its own right.

Types of morphemes

There are two types of morphemes: free morphemes and bound morphemes.

Free morphemes

Free morphemes can stand alone and don’t need to be attached to any other morphemes to get their meaning. Most words are free morphemes, such as the above-mentioned words house, book, bed, light, world, people, and so on.

Bound morphemes

Bound morphemes, however, cannot stand alone. The most common example of bound morphemes are suffixes, such ass, —er, —ing, and -est.

Let’s look at some examples of free and bound morphemes:

  • Tall

  • Tree

  • -er

  • -s

‘Tall’ and ‘Tree’ are free morphemes.

We understand what ‘tall’ and ‘tree’ mean; they don’t require extra add-ons. We can use them to create a simple sentence like ‘That tree is tall.’

On the other hand, ‘-er’ and ‘-s’ are bound morphemes. You won’t see them on their own because they are suffixes that add meaning to the words they are attached to.

Morphemes - Free morphemes and bound morphemes - StudySmarterFig. 1 — These are the differences between free vs bound morphemes

So if we add ‘-er’ to ‘tall’ we get the comparative form ‘taller’, while ‘tree’ plus ‘-s’ becomes plural: ‘trees’.

Morphemes: structure

Morphemes are made up of two separate classes.

  • Bases (or roots)

  • Affixes

A morpheme’s base is the main root that gives the word its meaning.

On the other hand, an affix is a morpheme we can add that changes or modifies the meaning of the base.

‘Kind’ is the free base morpheme in the word ‘kindly’. (kind + -ly)

‘-less’ is a bound morpheme in the word ‘careless’. (Care + —less)

Morphemes: affixes

Affixes are bound morphemes that occur before or after a base word. They are made up of suffixes and prefixes.

Suffixes are attached to the end of the base or root word. Some of the most common suffixes include —er, -or, -ly, -ism, and -less.

Taller

Thinner

Comfortably

Absurdism

Ageism

Aimless

Fearless

Prefixes come before the base word. Typical prefixes include ante-, pre-, un-, and dis-.

Antedate

Prehistoric

Unkind

Disappear

Derivational affixes

Derivational affixes are used to change the meaning of a word by building on its base. For instance, by adding the prefix ‘un-‘ to the word ‘kind‘, we got a new word with a whole new meaning. In fact, ‘unkind‘ has the exact opposite meaning of ‘kind’!

Another example is adding the suffix ‘-or’ to the word ‘act’ to create ‘actor’. The word ‘act’ is a verb, whereas ‘actor’ is a noun.

Inflectional affixes

Inflectional affixes only modify the meaning of words instead of changing them. This means they modify the words by making them plural, comparative or superlative, or by changing the verb tense.

books — books

short — shorter

quick — quickest

walk — walked

climb — climbing

There are many derivational affixes in English, but only eight inflectional affixes and these are all suffixes.

Word class

Modification reason

Suffixes

To modify nouns Plural & possessive forms -s (or -es), -‘s (or s’)
To modify adjectives

Comparative & superlative forms

-er, -est
To modify verbs

3rd person singular, past tense, present & past participles

-s, -ed, -ing, -en

All prefixes in English are derivational. However, suffixes may be either derivational or inflectional.

Morphemes: categories

The free morphemes we looked at earlier (such as tree, book, and tall) fall into two categories:

  • Lexical morphemes
  • Functional morphemes

Reminder: Most words are free morphemes because they have meaning on their own, such as house, book, bed, light, world, people etc.

Lexical morphemes

Lexical morphemes are words that give us the main meaning of a sentence, text or conversation. These words can be nouns, adjectives and verbs. Examples of lexical morphemes include:

  • house
  • book
  • tree
  • panther
  • loud
  • quiet
  • big
  • orange
  • blue
  • open
  • run
  • talk

Because we can add new lexical morphemes to a language (new words get added to the dictionary each year!), they are considered an ‘open’ class of words.

Functional morphemes

Functional (or grammatical) morphemes are mostly words that have a functional purpose, such as linking or referencing lexical words. Functional morphemes include prepositions, conjunctions, articles and pronouns. Examples of functional morphemes include:

  • and
  • but
  • when
  • because
  • on
  • near
  • above
  • in
  • the
  • that
  • it
  • them.

We can rarely add new functional morphemes to the language, so we call this a ‘closed’ class of words.

Allomorphs

Allomorphs are a variant of morphemes. An allomorph is a unit of meaning that can change its sound and spelling but doesn’t change its meaning and function.

In English, the indefinite article morpheme has two allomorphs. Its two forms are ‘a’ and ‘an’. If the indefinite article precedes a word beginning with a constant sound it is ‘a’, and if it precedes a word beginning with a vowel sound, it is ‘an’.

Past Tense allomorphs

In English, regular verbs use the past tense morpheme -ed; this shows us that the verb happened in the past. The pronunciation of this morpheme changes its sound according to the last consonant of the verb but always keeps its past tense function. This is an example of an allomorph.

Consider regular verbs ending in t or d, like ‘rent’ or ‘add’.

Now look at their past forms: ‘rented‘ and ‘added‘. Try pronouncing them. Notice how the —ed at the end changes to an /id/ sound (e.g. rent /ɪd/, add /ɪd/).

Now consider the past simple forms of want, rest, print, and plant. When we pronounce them, we get: wanted (want /ɪd/), rested (rest /ɪd/), printed (print /ɪd/), planted (plant /ɪd/).

Now look at other regular verbs ending in the following ‘voiceless’ phonemes: /p/, /k/, /s/, /h/, /ch/, /sh/, /f/, /x/. Try pronouncing the past form and notice how the allomorph ‘-ed’ at the end changes to a /t/ sound. For example, dropped, pressed, laughed, and washed.

Plural allomorphs

Typically we add ‘s’ or ‘es’ to most nouns in English when we want to create the plural form. The plural forms ‘s’ or ‘es’ remain the same and have the same function, but their sound changes depending on the form of the noun. The plural morpheme has three allomorphs: [s], [z], and [ɨz].

When a noun ends in a voiceless consonant (i.e. ch, f, k, p, s, sh, t, th), the plural allomorph is /s/.

Book becomes books (pronounced book/s/)

When a noun ends in a voiced phoneme (i.e. b, l, r, j, d, v, m, n, g, w, z, a, e, i, o, u) the plural form remains ‘s’ or ‘es’ but the allomorph sound changes to /z/.

Key becomes keys (pronounced key/z/)

Bee becomes bees (pronounced bee/z/)

When a noun ends in a sibilant (i.e. s, ss, z), the sound of the allomorph sound becomes /iz/.

Bus becomes buses (bus/iz/)

house becomes houses (hous/iz/)

A sibilant is a phonetic sound that makes a hissing sound, e.g. ‘s’ or ‘z’.

Zero (bound) morphemes

The zero bound morpheme has no phonetic form and is also referred to as an invisible affix, null morpheme, or ghost morpheme.

A zero morpheme is when a word changes its meaning but does not change its form.

In English, certain nouns and verbs do not change their appearance even when they change number or tense.

Sheep, deer, and fish, keep the same form whether they are used as singular or plural.

Some verbs like hit, cut, and cost remains the same in their present and past forms.

Morphemes — Key takeaways

  • Morphemes are the smallest lexical unit of meaning. Most words are free morphemes, and most affixes are bound morphemes.
  • There are two types of morphemes: free morphemes and bound morphemes.
  • Free morphemes can stand alone, whereas bound morphemes must be attached to another morpheme to get their meaning.
  • Morphemes are made up of two separate classes called bases (or roots) and affixes.
  • Free morphemes fall into two categories; lexical and functional. Lexical morphemes are words that give us the main meaning of a sentence, and functional morphemes have a grammatical purpose.



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    Notion denotes the reflection in the mind of real objects

    Notion is a unit of thinking
    Lexical meaning is the realization of a notion by means of a definite language system
    Word is a language unit

  • Lexical Meaning and NotionNotions are international especially with the natio...

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    Lexical Meaning and Notion
    Notions are international especially with the nations of the same cultural level

    Meanings are nationally limited

    EX GO (E) —- ИДТИ(R)
    “To move”
    BUT !!!
    To GO by bus (E)
    ЕХАТЬ (R)

    EX Man -мужчина, человек
    Она – хороший человек (R)
    She is a good person (E)

  • Types of MeaningTypes     of    meaning
grammatical 
meaning

lexico-grammati...

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    Types of Meaning
    Types of meaning

    grammatical
    meaning

    lexico-grammatical
    meaning
    lexical meaning
    denotational
    connotational

  • Grammatical Meaningcomponent of meaning recurrent in identical sets of indivi...

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    Grammatical Meaning
    component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words

    EX. girls, winters, toys, tables –
    grammatical meaning of plurality

    asked, thought, walked –
    meaning of past tense

  • Lexico-grammatical meaning(part –of- speech meaning) is revealed in the cla...

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    Lexico-grammatical meaning
    (part –of- speech meaning)
    is revealed in the classification of lexical items into:
    major word classes (N, V, Adj, Adv)
    minor ones (artc, prep, conj)

    words of one lexico-grammatical class have the same paradigm

  • Lexical Meaning is the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its...

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    Lexical Meaning
    is the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions

    EX . Go – goes — went
    lexical meaning – process of movement

  • PRACTICEGroup the words into 3 column according to the grammatical, lexical...

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    PRACTICE
    Group the words into 3 column according to the grammatical, lexical or part-of –speech meaning
    Boy’s, nearest, at, beautiful,
    think, man, drift, wrote,
    tremendous, ship’s, the most beautiful,
    table, near, for, went, friend’s,
    handsome, thinking, boy,
    nearer, thought, boys,
    lamp, go, during.

  • Grammatical
The case of nouns: boy’s, ship’s, friend’s
The degree of compari...

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    Grammatical
    The case of nouns: boy’s, ship’s, friend’s
    The degree of comparison of adj: nearest, the most beautiful
    The tense of verbs: wrote, went, thought

    Lexical
    Think, thinking, thought
    Went, go
    Boy’s, boy, boys
    Nearest, near, nearer
    At, for, during (“time”)
    Beautiful, the most beautiful

    Part-of-speech
    Nouns—verbs—adj—-prep

  • Aspects of Lexical meaningThe denotational aspect

The connotational aspect...

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    Aspects of Lexical meaning
    The denotational aspect

    The connotational aspect

    The pragmatic aspect

  • Denotational Meaning“denote” – to be a sign of, stand as a symbol for”

 esta...

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    Denotational Meaning
    “denote” – to be a sign of, stand as a symbol for”

    establishes the correlation between the name and the object
    makes communication possible

    EX booklet
    “a small thin book that gives info about smth”

  • PRACTICEExplain denotational meaning 
A lion-hunter
To have a heart like a...

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    PRACTICE
    Explain denotational meaning

    A lion-hunter
    To have a heart like a lion
    To feel like a lion
    To roar like a lion
    To be thrown to the lions
    The lion’s share
    To put your head in lion’s mouth

  • PRACTICE A lion-hunter  
A host that seeks out celebrities to impress guests...

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    PRACTICE

    A lion-hunter
    A host that seeks out celebrities to impress guests
    To have a heart like a lion
    To have great courage
    To feel like a lion
    To be in the best of health
    To roar like a lion
    To shout very loudly
    To be thrown to the lions
    To be criticized strongly or treated badly
    The lion’s share
    Much more than one’s share
    To put your head in lion’s mouth

  • Connotational Meaning reflects the attitude of the speaker towards what he sp...

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    Connotational Meaning
    reflects the attitude of the speaker towards what he speaks about
    it is optional – a word either has it or not

    Connotation gives additional information and includes:
    The emotive charge EX Daddy (for father)
    Intensity EX to adore (for to love)
    Imagery EX to wade through a book
    “ to walk with an effort”

  • PRACTICEGive possible interpretation of the sentences
She failed to buy it a...

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    PRACTICE
    Give possible interpretation of the sentences

    She failed to buy it and felt a strange pang.
    Don’t be afraid of that woman! It’s just barking!
    He got up from his chair moving slowly, like an old man.
    The girl went to her father and pulled his sleeve.
    He was longing to begin to be generous.
    She was a woman with shiny red hands and work-swollen finger knuckles.

  • PRACTICEGive possible interpretation of the sentencesShe failed to buy it an...

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    PRACTICE
    Give possible interpretation of the sentences
    She failed to buy it and felt a strange pang.
    (pain—dissatisfaction that makes her suffer)
    Don’t be afraid of that woman! It’s just barking!
    (make loud sharp sound—-the behavior that implies that the person is frightened)
    He got up from his chair moving slowly, like an old man.
    (to go at slow speed—was suffering or was ill)
    The girl went to her father and pulled his sleeve.
    (to move smth towards oneself— to try to attract smb’s attention)
    He was longing to begin to be generous.
    (to start doing— hadn’t been generous before)
    She was a woman with shiny red hands and work-swollen finger knuckles.
    (colour— a labourer involved into physical work ,constant contact with water)

  • The pragmatic aspect of lexical  meaning
the situation in which the word is...

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    The pragmatic aspect of lexical meaning

    the situation in which the word is uttered,
    the social circumstances (formal, informal, etc.),
    social relationships between the interlocutors (polite, rough, etc.),
    the type and purpose of communication (poetic, official, etc.)

    EX horse (neutral)
    steed (poetic)
    nag (slang)
    gee-gee (baby language)

  • PRACTICE State what image underline the meaning 

I heard what she said but...

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    PRACTICE
    State what image underline the meaning

    I heard what she said but it didn’t sink into my mind.
    You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that.
    They seized on the idea.
    Bill, chasing some skirt again?
    I saw him dive into a small pub.
    Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?
    He only married her for her dough.

  • PRACTICE State what image underline the meaning I heard what she said but it...

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    PRACTICE
    State what image underline the meaning
    I heard what she said but it didn’t sink into my mind.
    (to understand completely)
    You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that.
    (to behave humbly in order to win favour)
    They seized on the idea.
    (to be eager to take and use)
    Bill, chasing some skirt again?
    (a girl)
    I saw him dive into a small pub.
    (to enter suddenly)
    Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?
    (to blame smb unfairly)
    He only married her for her dough.
    (money)

  • Types of Morpheme Meaninglexical
differential
functional
distributional

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    Types of Morpheme Meaning
    lexical
    differential
    functional
    distributional

  • Lexical Meaning in Morphemesroot-morphemes that are homonymous to words posse...

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    Lexical Meaning in Morphemes
    root-morphemes that are homonymous to words possess lexical meaning
    EX. boy – boyhood – boyish

    affixes have lexical meaning of a more generalized character
    EX. –er “agent, doer of an action”

  • Lexical Meaning in Morphemeshas denotational and connotational components
EX....

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    Lexical Meaning in Morphemes
    has denotational and connotational components
    EX. –ly, -like, -ish –
    denotational meaning of similiarity
    womanly , womanish

    connotational component –
    -ly (positive evaluation), -ish (deragotary) женственный — женоподобный

  • Differential Meaninga semantic component that serves to distinguish one word...

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    Differential Meaning
    a semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all others containing identical morphemes

    EX. cranberry, blackberry, gooseberry

  • Functional Meaningfound only in derivational affixes
a semantic component whi...

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    Functional Meaning
    found only in derivational affixes
    a semantic component which serves to
    refer the word to the certain part of speech

    EX. just, adj. – justice, n.

  • Distributional Meaningthe meaning of the order and the arrangement of morphem...

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    Distributional Meaning
    the meaning of the order and the arrangement of morphemes making up the word
    found in words containing more than one morpheme
    different arrangement of the same morphemes would make the word meaningless
    EX. sing- + -er =singer,
    -er + sing- = ?

  • Motivation denotes the relationship between the phonetic or morphemic composi...

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    Motivation
    denotes the relationship between the phonetic or morphemic composition and structural pattern of the word on the one hand, and its meaning on the other

    can be phonetical
    morphological
    semantic

  • Phonetical Motivationwhen there is a certain similarity between the sounds th...

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    Phonetical Motivation
    when there is a certain similarity between the sounds that make up the word and those produced by animals, objects, etc.

    EX. sizzle, boom, splash, cuckoo

  • Morphological Motivationwhen there is a direct connection between the structu...

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    Morphological Motivation
    when there is a direct connection between the structure of a word and its meaning
    EX. finger-ring – ring-finger,

    A direct connection between the lexical meaning of the component morphemes
    EX think –rethink “thinking again”

  • Semantic Motivationbased on co-existence of direct and figurative meanings of...

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    Semantic Motivation
    based on co-existence of direct and figurative meanings of the same word

    EX a watchdog –
    ”a dog kept for watching property”

    a watchdog –
    “a watchful human guardian” (semantic motivation)

  •  PRACTICE

  • Analyze the meaning of the words. Define the type of motivation a) morpholo...

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    Analyze the meaning of the words.
    Define the type of motivation
    a) morphologically motivated
    b) semantically motivated

    Driver
    Leg
    Horse
    Wall
    Hand-made
    Careless
    piggish

  • Analyze the meaning of the words. Define the type of motivation a) morpholo...

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    Analyze the meaning of the words.
    Define the type of motivation
    a) morphologically motivated
    b) semantically motivated
    Driver
    Someone who drives a vehicle
    morphologically motivated
    Leg
    The part of a piece of furniture such as a table
    semantically motivated
    Horse
    A piece of equipment shaped like a box, used in gymnastics
    semantically motivated

  • Wall
Emotions or behavior  preventing people from feeling close
semantically...

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    Wall
    Emotions or behavior preventing people from feeling close
    semantically motivated
    Hand-made
    Made by hand, not machine
    morphologically motivated
    Careless
    Not taking enough care
    morphologically motivated
    Piggish
    Selfish
    semantically motivated

  • I heard what she said but it didn’t sink in my mind
“do down to the bottom”...

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    I heard what she said but it didn’t sink in my mind
    “do down to the bottom”
    ‘to be accepted by mind” semantic motivation

    Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?
    “fasten smth somewhere using a pin” –
    ”to blame smb” semantic motivation

    I was following the man when he dived into a pub.
    “jump into deep water” –
    ”to enter into suddenly” semantic motivation

    You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that
    “to move along on hands and knees close to the ground” –
    “to behave very humbly in order to win favor” semantic motivation

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