MORPHOLOGY: THE WORDS OF
LANGUAGE
Gilmara JohnsonMariana De Luca
Stacy Feldstein
HOMEWORK
At your table, discuss your responses for the questions and answers you chose from the homework.
7 minutes
MORPHOLOGY: THE STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE OF WORDS PAGE 34
1. Copyeditor: Adeline Moore
2. Accounts payable: Ineeda Czech
3. Pollution control: Maury Missions
4. Purchasing: Lois Bidder
5. Statistician: Marge Innovera
6. Russian chauffeur: Picov Andropov
7. Legal firm: Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe
1. (add a line more)
2. (I need a check)
3. (more emissions)
4. (lowest bidder)
5. (margin of error)
6. (pick up and drop off)
7. (Do we cheat 'em?
And how!)
CONTENT WORDS AND FUNCTION WORDS
Content Words Function Words
Open class Closed class
Denote concepts such as objects, actions, attributes
and ideas
Have no clear lexical meaning or concept attached to it
Specify grammatical relations
Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
articles, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns
WHAT KINDS OF WORDS IS HE TALKING ABOUT, “CONTENT” OR “FUNCTION”?
SEGMENTING SOUNDS
THECATSONTHEMATVS.
UNCHARACTERISTICALLY
JIGSAW READING Read your section and prepare to present a
poster with the main ideas to the class. Group 1: Morphemes: The Minimal Units of
Meaning (pp.36-38) Group 2: Bounds and Free morphemes (pp.
39-42) Group 3: Roots and Stems, Bound Roots
(pp.42-44) Group 4: Rules of word formation,
Derivational Morphology (pp. 44-46) Group 5: Inflectional Morphology (pp. 46-49) Group 6: Compounds (pp.57)
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
As groups present, use you graphic organizer to take notes on the “Description” section.
At your tables, use you notes to discuss and complete the “classroom applications” section. You can explain how morphological knowledge affects language teaching or you can design a teaching activity that would help students learn that morphological aspect of language.
Share with the class: Pick one concept (different from the one you presented) to show how it applies to teaching ELLs.
MAIN DIVISIONS OF WORD CLASSES (PARTS OF SPEECH):
Content Words
Function Words
• Nouns • Verbs • Adjectives• Adverbs
• Conjunctions• Prepositions• Articles• Pronouns
EXERCISE: DETERMINE THE WORD CLASS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING WORDS
a. canineb. thec. himd. elegante. inconvenienc
ef. eloquentlyg. complyh. inasmuch as
i. over
a. Nounb. Articlec. Pronound. Adjectivee. Nounf. Adverbg. Verbh. Conjunctio
ni. Preposition
MORPHEME: THE MINIMAL UNIT OF MEANING
Free morpheme: a single morpheme that constitutes a word and can stand alone.
Bound morpheme: a morpheme that must be attached to another morpheme.
QUESTION #2A, B, I, J, K, L, M
Example: Retroactive = retro + act + ive
Free morpheme = actBound morphemes = retro-, -ive
ENGLISH AFFIXES(BASED ON THE POSITION)
Prefix: An affix that occurs before a morpheme
Suffix: An affix that occurs after a morpheme
ENGLISH PREFIXES
Examples of Negative Prefixes:un- non- dis- a-
Examples of size and degree prefixes:mini- sub- over- super-
ENGLISH SUFFIXES
Class preserving suffixation:-er lecturer-ian librarian-ist scientist-let piglet
Class changing suffixation: Verb Noun perform performanceAdjective Adverb nice nicelyAdjective Noun active activity
AFFIXES(BASED ON THE FUNCTION)
Inflections vs. Derivations
DEFINITIONDerivational
morpheme: deriving (creating) a new word with a new meaning.
Inflectional morpheme: changing the form of a word because of the rules of syntax.
ENGLISH INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES
Nouns–s plural–’s possessive
Verbs –s third person singular
present–ed past tense–en past participle–ing progressive
Adjectives–er comparative–est superlative
SOME EXAMPLES OF ENGLISH DERIVATIONAL MORPHEME
-ic : Noun Adj ; alcohol alcoholic -ance : Verb Noun ; clear clearance -ly : Adj Adv ; exact exactly -ity : Adj Noun ; active activity -able : Verb Adj ; read readable -ship : Noun Noun ; friend friendship re- : Verb Verb ; cover recover in- : Adj Adj ; definite indefinite
DESCRIBE THE ITALIC AFFIXES:
1) impossible2) terrorized3) terrorize4) desks5) dislike6) humanity7) fastest
1) Derivational prefix
2) Inflectional suffix
3) Derivational suffix
4) Inflectional suffix
5) Derivational prefix
6) Derivational suffix
7) Inflectional suffix
Describe the italic affixes:
8) premature9) untie10) darken11) fallen12) oxen13) faster14) lecturer
8) Derivational prefix
9) Derivational prefix
10) Derivational suffix
11) Inflectional suffix
12) Inflectional suffix
13) Inflectional suffix
14) Derivational suffix
Test Question:
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