Chapter 1 Dividing Words Up

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Chapter 1Dividing Words Up

• Morphology
• Lane 333

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Introduction

• There are words in English that cant be divided
  into parts, Such as tea, steal, small, fast, in,
  me, and
• But, lots of words consist of smaller parts (they
  have structure)

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Morpheme

• A morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that
  has a meaning or grammatical function (re-value,
  strong-ly, cat-s)
• Free morphemes the parts of the word that can
  stand by themselves, such as book-shelf
• Bound morphemes the parts of the word that cant
  stand alone need the support of other
  morphemes, such as in quick-ly

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Morphemes

• Typical morphemes
• are meaningful
• recur in a language's vocabulary
• may recur in regular interchanges
• Some words may consist only of bound morphemes
  (presumption, exclude)

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Morphological Segmentation

• Segmentation is dividing words up into morphemes
  
• Morphology the academic study of word structure

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Exercises

• 1.1 Divide these words up into their constituent
  parts (morphemes)

thickest bookshelf thinkable outbid nowhere legless
quickly rooms outer preview thinking unsafe
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Exercises

• 1.5 Compare the following pairs of words,
  decide which consist of one morpheme which of
  two

Baked Printer Killing Harden Reheat Preview Sticker Undue Hardest Unstable Cafeteria Precinct Flicker Under Harvest Constable Wisteria Naked winter Shilling garden Retreat
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Exercises

• 1.6 which of the following
• English words are one-morpheme words?
• 1.7 What might the morpheme ee, if thats what
  it is, mean?

anorak shovel flower cricket placebo artichoke
spider little booty bootee warmth crackle