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Ansa Hameed
Previously….
Phonology
Co-Articulation Effects
Supra segmental Features
Today’s Lecture
Morphology
Word
Morpheme
Word and Morpheme
Phoneme and Morpheme
Lexeme and Morpheme
Levels of Language
Phonology
Phonetics
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Morphology
Morphology
What is a word?
What is a word?
An orthographic definition
A phonological definition
A semantic definition
A syntactic definition
What is a word? (Orthographic View)
An Orthographic Definition
But…what’s a morpheme?
Morpheme
‘a minimal unit (which cannot be broken down) of
meaning or grammatical function’ (Yule, 75)
Tour ist s
(visit) (person who (plural)
does something)
Reopened
Re open ed
(again) (an action) (past)
Morpheme & Word
What is the relationship between words and
morphemes?
Morphology
Word
Morpheme
Word and Morpheme
Phoneme and Morpheme
Lexeme and Morpheme
References
Bybee, Joan. 1985. Morphology: a study of the relation
between meaning and form. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Falk, Julia. Linguistics and Language. 1978.
Parsad, Tarni, A Course in Linguistics, 2012, New Dehli: PHI
Rajimwale, Sharad, Elements of General Linguistics, 2006.
Strang, Barbara. Modern English Structure. Edward Arnold.
1968.
Ouhalla, Jamal. Introducing Transformational Grammar.
1999.
Parsad, Tarni. A Course in Linguistics. 2012.
Yule, George. The Study of Language. 1996.