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Lecture 3
Morphemic structure of
English and Ukrainian
words
Plan
1. The word as a fundamental unit of the
language
1.1. Some general problems of the theory of
the word
1.2. Criteria of the definition
2. Morphemes, free and bound forms
3. Aims and principles of morphemic
analysis
4. Contrastive analysis of the morphemic
structure of English and Ukrainian
word.
APPROACHES TO DEFINITION
the most complex problem in the
Linguistic unit
Any unit can be considered unit of the
Linguistic unit
Can separate sounds cannot be considered
fundamental assumption
each linguistic unit has a constant and
specific meaning
Two possible main directions of linguistic
research:
phonetics - we study the speech event
without reference to its meaning
semantics - we study the relation of the
event to the features of meaning
the definition
should indicate the most essential
O.I.Smirnitskiy
Though in different languages words can be
syntactic criterion
Dionysius Thrax: the word is the smallest part of
the sentence.
With different modifications this criterion has
been applied by a lot of scientists. Henry Sweet
defined the word as a minimum sentence and
Leonard Bloomfield as minimum free form.
semantic-logical criterion
W.Humboldt, .Zivers, D.Kudriavskyy
identified the sentence with the logical statement
and considered the smallest part of the sentence the word - the sign of a separate notion
psychological criterion
the word is as the linguistic equivalent of a
separate concept
semantic-phonological criterion
A word is an articulate sound-symbol in its aspect of
syntactic-semantic criterion
one of the smallest completely satisfying
A. Meillet
combines the semantic, phonological and
complex form
In any complex form, each constituent is said to
Morpheme
A linguistic form which bears no partial
morpheme
A morpheme can be described phonetically, since
sememe
It is the morpheme that is the smallest
lexicon
Since every complex form is made up entirely of
L. Bloomfield
A. Secondary words, containing free forms:
L. Bloomfield
B. Primary words, not containing a free form:
2. Morpheme-words, consisting of a
single (free) morpheme: man, boy, cut, run, red,
big.
Types of stems
In other cases, however, an affix can be added to a
Combinability of stems
Stems are combined with definite affixes and their
Semi-affixes
Sometimes root morphemes can come close to
Inflexional vs derivational
Functional affixes convey grammatical meaning.
Inflexional vs derivational
Lexical derivatives make up a derivational or
Three criteria
Three criteria are commonly used to help
Inflexion
derivation
A third criterion
A third criterion for distinguishing between
modern -ize
* new-ize
legal-ize
* lawful-ize
Morphological analysis
The theoretical foundations of word analysis in
Derivational affixes
1. Suffixes - realize their meaning only in
Derivational affixes
2. Prefixes - differ from derivational suffixes
Functional affixes
form-creating (i) and word-
changing (ii).
Form-creating affixes differ from derivational as they
are combined with the stem of one and the same
word while derivational affixes are combined with
the stem to create a new word.
Form-creating suffixes are standardized, obligatory
for all the words belonging to the part of speech
within which they create a definite system of wordforms ()
flection or ending
expresses the connections of words with other words in
word-combinations or sentences.
Types of declention (ii) of nouns, adjectives,
numerals, pronouns are differentiated through the system
of endings which reflect grammatical meanings of case,
gender and number or only case (in cardinal numerals).
Verbs have a complicated system of conjugation
(iii). Main indicators of the categories of
person, gender and number are endings. Endings are highly
abstract. They can be easily attached to all the words
belonging to a certain type of declenation or conjugation
and create a definite system of word-forms.
M.P.Ivchenko
I. Non-derived words:
1. Non-derived words consisting of the root: ,
, , , , , i, ,
, , i, , , i, .
2. Non-derived words consisting of the root and the
ending: -, -, -, -. Here belong
also words with zero affix: i, i, i.
M.P.Ivchenko
II. Derived words made up of roots, prefixes
and suffixes:
1. Words consisting of the root and the suffix:
--, i--.