Morphology II

Morphology II

Inflection derivation
Adds grammatical meaning often adds lexical meaning
Creates word-forms prodecues new lexemes

Sing-s un-happy
Teacher-s kind-dom
John-’s self-ish
quick-er teach-er


English typologically

Synthetic <——————————————————->analytic

Poorly inflected high amount of periphrastic constructions
Portmanteau morphemes (ever increasing) e.g. going to future


Derivation
• A concatenative word-formation process
• Word-formation process involving the attachment on an affix

Type of affixes
• Classification depends on
- position:
Prefix un-happy
Suffix eat-able
(infix) abso-bloody-lutely (making a word longer for dramatic effect)

- the word form they derive:
- Nominal V->N sing-er
- Verbal A->V sick-en
- Adjectival N->A rain-y


Curiosity

Underdeliverable
most fundamental component of derivative: ROOT
Inconclusiveness

Inability

Towards globalization
Globalise
globalise+ -action BASE3
Global + -ise BASE2
Globe + -al ROOT (BASE1)

ROOTword for unhealthy ->heal

Productive affixes
- the nominal suffix -th or
- The adjectival suffix -ish
Problematic -er derivations
• Teacher, baker, reader, writer, walker, etc.