Introduction to morphosyntax

Information of morphology and syntax

1. MORPHOSYNTAX
•Morphosyntax
•Morphology & Lexicology
•Morpheme
Soraya

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Morphosyntax
The study of grammatical categories or properties for whose
definition criteria of morphology and syntaxboth apply.
Morphosyntax
Syntax
Morpho
logy

3. #
Morphosyntax
•The study of grammatical categories or linguistic
units that have both morphological and syntactic
properties.
•The set of rules that govern linguistic units
whose properties are definable by both
morphological and syntactic criteria.
•The number category in Nouns, for example, may
be expressed morphologically (through
inflectional endings) and syntactically (through
agreement with verb).
•Tense, person, and voice are examples of other
morphosyntactic categories

4. #
Morphology VS Lexicology
Morphologyis the branch of
linguistics that study the
structure of words in a
particular language and their
classification
•Morpheme:Smallest
meaningful unit of grammar
Lexicologyis the study of
vocabulary of a language
•lexeme : The smallest unit
in the meaning system of a
language that can be
distinguished from other
similar unit

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Morpheme
A short segment of language that
meets three criteria:
It is a word or part
of a word that has
meaning.
It cannot be
divided into
smaller meaningful
parts without
violation of it’s
meaning or without
meaningless
remainders.
It recurs in differing
verbal environment
with a relatively
stable meaning.

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Classification of Morpheme
•A morpheme that can be uttered alone with
meaning (stand by itself)
•e.g. eat, view, play, etc
Free
Morpheme:
•A morpheme that cannot be uttered with
meaning. It is always annexed to one or other
morphemes to form a word.
•e.g. re-, -er, un-, -ly, etc
Bound
Morpheme:
•A Part of a word that has principal meaning.
Most of the bases are free morpheme but
some are bound.
•e.g. denial, lovable, etc
Base
Morpheme;

7. #
A baseis a linguistic form that meets
one or more of these requirements;
It can occur as
an immediate
constituent of a
word whose only
other immediate
constituent is a
prefix or suffix
It is an
allomorph of a
morpheme
which has
another
allomorph that is
a free form
It is a borrowing
from another
language in
which it is free
form of a base
Base

8. #
Affix
•Bound morpheme that occurs before, within, or
after a base.
•There are three kinds of Affix;
•Those bound morphemes that occurs before
a base
•e.g. import, pre-schoolPrefix
•Bound morphemes that has been inserted
within a word.
•e.g. –ee-geese (replaciveallomorphs)Infix
•Bound morphemes that occur after a base
•e.g. failure, nails, dreamed, etcSuffix