DEFINITION AND THE

SCOPE OF
MORPHOLOGY
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Adithya 1911040248
Anisa Laila Rahmadani 1911040265
Riska Ayu Diana 1911040190
DEFINITION OF MORPHOLOGY
Morph -> The smallest unit of language. Has meaning in sound or
writing.
logy -> As a particular branch or field orlearning.

1. Morphology in the 2.Definition of morphology

Concept of Morphology according to experts
THE SCOPE
OF
MORPHOLOGY
 A. MORPHEME

1. MORPHOME AND FEATURE 2. Feature Types: Sound and Meaning

An important component of the theory a. Phonological Features
of the morpheme is the idea that the b. Synsem Features
grammar contains representations of the
sound and meaning facets of language
3. Free Morpheme 4. Bounds Morpheme
a. Conntent Words : a. Inflectional Morphemes
● Nouns: girl, hat, house, fire ● Modify a Noun: -s (or -es), -'s (or s')
● Verbs: walk, sleep, say, eat ● Modify an Adjective: -er, -est
● Adjectives: quick, nice, fun, big ● Modify a Verb: -ed, -ing, -en
b. Funtion Words : a. Derivational Morphemes
● Articles: the, a, an ● Preffixes
● Demonstratives: this, that, those, these ● suffixes
● Auxiliary Verbs: will, is, must, does
● Quantifiers: some, many, few
● Prepositions: under, over, to, by
● Pronouns: he, she, his, her
● Conjunctions: for, and, but, or
B. MORPHS

Morph is a phonetic form of morpheme

which studies the units of form, sound, and
phonetic symbols. Morph is divided into
two, namely, lexical and grammatical.
Lexical morph is a morph that shows
directly the real object of action.
 C. ALLOMORPH

Allomorph Allomorph Lexical Allomorph

Formed From Formed From
Article Morpheme Past
Tense
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