Թեմա - Word formation, morphemes and their classes
Տեսակ - Կուրսային, անհատական և ստուգողական աշխատանքներ
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Chapter I Morphemes in english lexicology
Chapter II The classification of morphemes
Conclusion
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This course paper is about English morphemes and their classification. It consists of introduction, two chapters, conclusion and references. Introduction aims at presenting the purpose and the subject of the work in general. In chapter I word-formation and morphology are discussed. In chapter II morphemes and their classes are examined. In conclusion we sum up the results of our research. The bibliography includes the list of references used in the research.
The morphology and lexicology of the English language have always been a great source of ideas and the theme of many linguistic theses. Morphology is a branch of linguistics that deals with words. More precisely, it deals with the structure of the word and its form. Morphology includes the analysis of word roots, affixes, and their combining. Therefore, it also deals with derivation. The basic unit in morphology is called a morpheme.
Every language has its means of word-formation which differ in functional, semantic, etymological aspects. To understand how the formation takes place, above all, derivational relations must be taken into account. From this point of view word-formation is not just process but a linguistic unit equipped with regular and systematic features because new words, first of all, are based on certain structural and semantic models. So, we can say that word-formation is a system of derivational types of words.
Semantically morphemes fall into two classes: root-morphemes and non-root or affixational morphemes. Roots and affixes make two distinct classes of morphemes due to the different roles they play in word-structure.
The root-morpheme
Derivation or affixation
A morph is the exponent of a morpheme, relating to the morpheme as an abstraction, with a morpheme itself being its realization (e.g. boys/bats with {s} being a morph in each). An allomorph is a family of morph, deriving from the fact that in English, certain morphemes or morphs change their nature from one word environment to the other. Allomorphs relate to the phonological aspects of grammatical analysis.
There are majorly two types of morphemes: free and bound. The free morpheme, also known as the base or the root, is a word. It is independent in terms of meaning and form; it can stand on its own. A bound morpheme, on the other hand, cannot stand on its own as it is subordinate to the free morpheme. Bound morphemes are the affixes which are either prefixes, infixes or suffixes. While prefixes are bound morphemes “affixed” to the beginning of words and infixes are those inserted into the middle of words, suffixes are bound morphemes that are added to the word endings