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MORPHOLOGY
BY
Ypsi Soeria Soemantri, Dra., M.Hum.
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UNIT 1
INTRODUCTION
The American linguists viewed that there are four levels of linguistics :
semantic level : deals with meaning
↓
syntactic level : deals with sentence-structure
↓
morphological level : deals with word-structure
↓
phonology : deals with sound systems
The levels were assumed to be ordered in hierarchy, with phonology at the bottom and
semantics at the top. In 1920-1945 American linguists who were many of them
structuralim worked hard to find the theory of how sounds are used to distinguish
meaning in language. They developed and refined the theory of phoneme (Sapir 1925
and other linguists). Their focus gradually shifted to morphology. In 1940-1960,
structuralism was in its high activities. Many linguists investigated the theory of words-
structure (Bloomfield, Nida) Later Chomsky and his contemporaries present many kinds
of research concerning of the word-structure theories
Some definitions of Morphology
- Morphology is the study of how words are structured (McManis)
-Morphology is the system of categories and rules involved in words
formation and interpretation (O’Grady)
- Morphology is the study of morphemes and their arrangements in forming
words (Nida)
WORD CLASS/SYNTACTIC CATEGORY/PARTS OF SPEECH:
One of the classes to which words allocated on the basis of grammar behavior
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There are two kinds of them:
A.OPEN CLASS items :
they are extendable
●NOUN is a word which can occur
- as a subject or an object of a verb or the object/complement of preposition
- can be modified by an adjective
- can be used with determiners
there are 4 kinds of nouns :
count nouns one ball, two balls
noncount nouns water, milk
concrete nouns :
something which you
can see and touch
chair,hair
abstract nouns :
something which no
physical form
management, bravery
common nouns :
are words for a kind
of person, thing
substsnce
Human, cat
proper nouns Ann, Texas
●a VERB is a word which occur as apart of a predicate of a sentence.
Verbs can be divided into auxiliary verbs and main verbs.
Two kinds of auxiliary verbs : primary auxiliary ( be,have, and do)
Modal auxiliary (will, can, must,etc)
Main verbs refer to state verbs (state verbs describe states which continue over a
period, eg : be, belive, consider, hope, know, etc) and action verbs (describe
something which happens in a limited time, and has a definite beginning and end,
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e.g: ask, come, get, say etc)
●ADJECTIVE is the word that describe the thing, quality, state, or action which a noun
refer to, eg : black a black hat.
●ADVERB is a word that describe or adds to the meaning of a verb, an adjective, another
adverb, or sentence.
B CLOSED–SYSTEM items :
they cannot be extended
●PRONOUN is a word which replace a noun, eg. she, we.
●CONJUNCTION is a word which joins, words, phrases, or clauses, eg. and, but
●DETERMINER is a word which is used with a noun, and which limits the meaning of
the
quantifiers: some, many.
numerals : the first, two chairs
●ARTICLE is a word like a, the
●PREPOSITION is word like to, for, in, at
●INTERJECTION a word such as ugh!, wow! Which indicate an emotional state
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UNIT 2
MORP AND MORPHEME
A MORP →
is a physical form representing some morpheme in a language. It is a recurrent
distinctive sound (phoneme) or sequence of sounds (phonemes).(Katamba:24)for
example : I parked the car.
The morphs in this sentence : I /aĬ /
parked /pa:kt/
the /δe/
car /ka:/
ALLOMORPS →
If different morphs represent the same morphemes, they are grouped together.
(Katamba;26)
Eg :
One car two carsone dog two dogs [z]one horse two horses [iz]
morpheme plural form
alomorph allomorph allomorph
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morph morph morph
/s/ /z/ /iz/
In the other hand,
A MORPHEME →
1. is a minimal linguistic unit which has a meaning or grammatical function.
2.is the smallest difference in the shape of a word that
correlates with the smallest difference in word or sentence
meaning or in grammatical structure. (Katamba : 24)
e.g : untidy consists of two morphemes
un – tidy
↓ ↓
1 2
widens consists of ? morphemes : wide -en –s
There are two kinds of morphemes
BOUND MORPHEME
The morphemes which always attach to other morpheme (-er,-ist,etc)
MORPHEME
FREE MORPHEM
The morphemes which can stand alone (cat. Chair,etc)
MONOMORPHEMIC consists of one morpheme
eg : dig, fast, a,
POLYMORPHEMES consists of more than one morphemes
e.g : un-educate-ion
mono-cycle-s
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EMPTY MORPH →
a surplus building-element which does not realize ANY MORPHEME
(Katamba:38)
e.g :
noun + al → adjective
medicine medicinal
person personal
sense sense –u-al
fact fact – u- al -u- → empty morph → it does not represent any
morpheme
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UNIT 3
AFFIX
When we find a morpheme that can be attached to the other morpheme, we called
it an affix.
AN AFFIX →
is a letter or sound, or a group of letters or sounds ( a morpheme) which is added
to a word.
There are 3 kinds of affixes:
1. A PREFFIX is an affix attached before a root or stem or base.
e.g : un- kind → un -: prefix kind : root
2. A SUFFIX is an affix attached after a root.
e.g: lazy –ness → lazy : root - ness : suffix
3.AN INFIX is an affix attached within a word
e.g : Indonesian language : jari → j -em - ari
In order to represent the internal structure of words, it is necessary not only to
identify each of the component morphemes but also to classify these element .
Affixes do not belong to a lexical category and are always bound morpheme and combine
with the root, eg. teach-er means ‘one who teaches’
The internal structure N
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V AF Teach er EXERCISES :
1.Write the tree diagram for : unkind, books, mo
2.BOUND MORPHEMES :
Find the words with
PREFIXES : SUFFIXES:
Aero- (air) → noun → verb - -- ize
Ant- (against) adjective → verb
Auto- (self) --ment
Bi- (two) verb→ noun --tion
Co- (together)
Dis- (not) noun→ noun ; … ism
Ex- (out) …. let
Il- (not) noun → adjective : --y
Mis- (wrong) .ful
Semi –(half) ..ed
3.FREE MORPHEMES :
Write other free morphemes
Man
Bet
THE ROOT is a base form or a free morphemes
Write othe roots
4.THE STEM a part of a word that is in existence before inflectional affixes
eg : work → root
work er → stem
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worker s
Write other stems.
5.Isolate them and decide free or bound morphemes
puppies catsup succotash entrust unhappy milder bicycle signpost
comfortable Massachusetts reconditioned unidirectional thickness
6. Write several monomorphemes words:
7. Write several polymorphemes words
8.Isolate these words
e,g, : babies → baby : free morpheme
- s bound morphemes
monstrous undeniable laziness
fatalities divisible fixation
9. In each group of words below, two words have a different morphological structure
than the others :
one has a different type of suffix, and one has no suffix at all. Identify the word that has
no suffix and the word whose suffix is different from the others. Isolate the suffix that
the remaining two words share and give its type and function.
a.rider b.tresses c.running d.tables
colder melodies foundling lens
silver Bess’s handling witches
actor guess fling calculates
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10. Divide them into morphemes :
a. tigers speakers
b. untimely uniquely
c. wholesome gruesome
d untimely uniquely
e consumed consumption
f. decorating decentralizing
g leucocyte erythrocyte
- divide them into morpheme.
- are there any morphemes which have two allomorphs?
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UNIT 4
AFFIX MORPHEMES
What is an affix morpheme?
DERIVATIONAL MORPHEME
A letter or sound, or group of letters or sounds (a morpheme) which is added to a word,
and which changes the meaning or function of the word.
Inflectional morphemes
morphemes change neither parts of speech nor meaning, but
Affix morphemes only refine and give extra grammatical information
Derivational morphemes
Morphemes derive (create) some words by either changing the
Meaning or parts of speech
The four characteristics
Inflectional morphemes Derivational morpheme
1 Do not change meaning or parts of speech Changing meaning or parts of speech
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2 Typically indicate syntactic or semantic
relations between different words
Typically indicate semantic relations
within the words
3 Typically occur with all members of some
large class of morphemes
Typically occur with only some
members of a class of morphemes
4 Typically occurs at the margins of words Typically occur before inflectional
suffixes.
Most morphemes have SEMANTIC CONTENT (MEANING)
▪ function morphemes (inflectional morphemes)
to provide information about grammatical function (prepositionsarticles,pronouns and
conjunction)
▪ content morphemes (derivational morphemes)
to have some kind of independent, identifiable meaning or indicatea change in meaning
when added to a word. ( roots and all derivational affixes)
EXERCISE
PERSIAN WORDS consists of more than one morphemes( xar means buy, -id→ past tense)a. xaridam I boughtb. xaridi you (sg) boughtc. xarid he boughtd..naxaridam I did not buye namixaridand they were not buyingf naxaridim we did not buyg mixarid he was buying
FIND THE PRONOUN :
I you (sg)(pl) we they not.
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KULIAH 4
INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES
It occurs in
1 -s → subject is singular noun/pronoun he,she it
verb → -s
(1) This pianist performs in the local hall every week.
The words (1) perform has an –s suffix. It tells us that thensentence (1) is
acceptable sentence because it follows the grammatical rule of English concerning
agreement between a verb and its subject. The suffix –s on the verb is obligatory when
the subject is a singular noun phrase. The –s on the verb does not make any independent
contribution to the meaning of the sentence.
2.- ed → past tense
(2) The pianist performed in the local hall yesterday,
The verb perform- is added with the suffix –ed, it tells us that the verb is written
in the past tense which is desribed that the event happens in the past. The –ed on the verb
does not make any independent contribution to the meaning of the sentence.
3. -ing → progressive
(3) The pianist is performing his ability in the hall now.
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The verb perform –is added with the suffix –ing. It tells us that the sentence is
written in the progressive sentence. The –ing on the verb does not make any independent
contribution to the meaning.
4 –en → past participle
(4) She has eaten all the biscuits.
The verb eat is added with the suffi –en. It tells us that the sentence is in the
present perfect tense have/has – past participle. The – en on the verb does not make any
independent contribution to the meaning.
5. –s → plural marker
(5) There were four rows of seats.
For the words that are having the irregular chnges in the plural form, as : man –men
child-children, tooth-teeth → called internal changes
6. – s → possesive
(6) The man’s bicycle is blue.
The noun man is added with the suffix ‘s, it shows that the noun is in the
possesive case.
7. –er → comparative adjective or adverb
(7) Bill is taller than Tom.
Tom walks faster than Bill.
The adjective/ adverb are added with the comparative form –er.
8 –est → superlative
(8) Valery is the fastest runner in this competition.
The adjective fast is added with the superlative form –est.
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EXERCISES:
1.In each of the following groups of words forms, identify of those that forms of the same
lexeme :
a.woman,women’s, women, womanly
b.greenish,greener,green,greens.
c.written,wrote, writer, rewrite, writing
2. What word form represents each of the following grammatical words?
a. the plural of the noun noose
b the plural of the noun goose
c the plural of the noun moose
d. the past tense of the verb play
e. the past tense of the verb lay
d the past tense of the verb lie (rest horizontally
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KULIAH 5
DERIVATIONAL MOPHEMES (1)
Look at these sentences:
1. The performance last week was particularly impressive.
2. The performances were great.
We notice that there is a plural form of the word performance → performances.
The word performance here is not the variant of the word perform. :
Perform → verb
Performance (s) → noun.
The plural form of the word performance, performances is the same as the word cat, cats
→ the two form of the lexeme cat, singular and plural.
It makes sense to regard the word performance and performances as the two forms of the
a lexeme performance. So the relationship between the word perform and performance is
not between words form but between lexeme. The relationship between lexemes is called
DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY.
●Adverbs derived from adjectives
There are two kinds of derivational process :
adjective adverb
1. + ly → deep deeply
lazy lazily
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2 + Ǿ→ conversion (zero derived) = a lexeme belongs to one class can be converted
to another class without any overt shape in shape
The car is fast. The car is driven fast Ǿ
The work is hard. They work hard Ǿ
● Nouns derived from nouns
English has derivational processes that yield nouns with meaning :
a.Small X → -let, -ette,-ie eg : booklet
b.Female X → -ss, -ine, eg : princess
c.Inhabitant of X → - er, -(i) an, eg : Londoners
d.State of being an X → -ship, -hood, eg : motherhood
e.Devotee of expert on X → -ist, -ian eg. : historian
GIVE SEVERAL OTHER EXAMPLES : ………….
Many of them have UNPREDICTABLES meaning, a cigarette is not merely a small
cigar, brotherhood means not ‘a state of being a brother’ but rather ‘secret or semi-secret
society.
● Nouns derives from adjectives
Al these three suffixes mean basically ‘property of being X’, where x is base adjectives.
adjective noun
a. – ity → pure purity
b. – ness → good goodness
c. - ism → radical radicalism
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But : high (adj.) ≠ highness (noun) = royal personage eg : Her Royal Highness
height = property of being high
● Nouns derived from verbs
Noun → abstract noun means activity or result of X-ing.
verb noun
a. - ance, -ence eg ignore ignorance
b. - ment, develop development
c. - ing paint painting
d. –((a)t) ion organize organizing
e -al refuse refusal
d. –er sing singer
The suffix –er is the one most generally used for forming nouns denoting a person
performing the action of corresponding verb.
e. coversion
- change the position of the stress
permìt pĕrmit
tranfĕr trǎnsfer
- change in the final consonant
believe belief
prove proof
defend defence
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- change in vowel sing song
Sit seat
EXERCISE :
1. What nouns can be formed from these words by suffixan.
define defer detain
refine refer retain
confine confer contain
2. The following words can be either nouns or verbs.
Record outline report
Journey convict outrage
exchange imprint answer
remark record import
surprise retreat cripple
a) for each of the word, determine whether stress placement can be used to make
the distinction between noun and verb.
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KULIAH 6
DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES
● Adjectives derived from adjectives
Preffixes : adjective adjective
un - means not sure unsure
in - means not
the allomorph im- , il-, ir-
correct incorrect
possible impossible
legal illegal
responsible irresponsible
Suffixes :
- ish means ‘some what X’ green greenish
small smallish
● Adjectives derived from verbs
verb adjective
- able, ible means able to be Xed break breakable
- ent, -ant tending to X repell repellent
- ive tending to X speculate speculative
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The forms of ‘inflection morphemes’ –ed, -en, and –ing are considered as adjectives
derived from verbs : a not very interesting book
The party-goers sounded very drunk
The car seemed more damaged than the lamp-post
(notice that very cannot modify verbs)
● Adjectives derived from nouns
Noun adjective
- full meaning meaningful
- less meaning meaningless
- al origin original
- ish boy boyish
● Verbs derived from verbs.
verb verb
Prefixes
Re- means reversive ente re-enter
Un- negative tie untie
De- negative compose decompose
Dis- negative believe disbelieve
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● Verbs derived from nouns
Noun verb
Prefixes
De- means remove X from bug debug
Forest deforest
Sufixes
-ise terror terrorise
-(i)fy beauty beautify
By replacing the final voiceless consonant of a noun with a voiced one
Bath bathe
Breath breathe
EXERCISE
1.What verb can be form from these adjectives
Full poor long active humble
Empty rich short national national
2–ism was discussed only as a suffix for deriving nouns from adjectives. Give examples
which to show that it can be used to derive nouns from nouns and from other adjectives.
3. –ly is a suffix for deriving adverbs from adjectives. Give exmples to show that it can
be used to derived adjective from nouns.
4.Consider the following words :
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untie desks triumphed preplan (V) optionality
invalid ageless fastest prettier invalid (A)
Draw a tree structure for each word
5. Tom is a good football player.
Tom is taller than John.
Tom is a New Yorker
Explain the affix –er in these threes words, isolate them
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KULIAH 7
ENGLISH WORD FORMATION PROCESS
A.THE DIFFERENT WAYS TO PUT MORPHEMES TOGETHER AND FORM NEW
WORDS :
1.Compunding
2 Conversion
3. Affixation
4. Reduplication
5. Morpheme internal changes
6.Suppletion
B.WITHOUT PUTTING ANY MORPHEMES
1. Acronyms
2. Back Formation
3. Blending
4. clipping
5. coinage
1.COMPOUNDING
is a word formed by the combination of two independent words. The parts of a
compound can be free morphemes, derived words, or other compound in nearly any
combination
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PHRASE COMPOUND
Green house
house that green
greenhouse
a glass structure when delicate plan
are rearranged
black board
board that is black
blackboard
board for writing
silk worm
worm made of silk (toy)
Silkworm
caterpillar that spin silk
hair net
net made of hair
hair net
net for covering hair
Apart from stress, for distinguishing compound from phrases is a semantic: a compound
has a meaning that is unpredictable.
a. compound verbs
◦ V-V → stir-fry, freeze-dry
◦ N-V hand-wash, air-condition, stem-clean
◦ A-V dry-clean, whitewash
◦ P- V underestimate, outrun, overcook
(V verb, N noun, A adjective, P preposition
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All this compounds have a verb as the rightmost element → right headed.
b. compound adjective
◦ N-A → sky-high, coal-black, oil-rich
◦ A-A grey-green, squeaky-clean, red-hot
◦ P-A underfull, overactive
The preposition over as its first element is the most productive morpheme
The meaning of over … is ‘too X.’ → right headed
c. compound nouns
◦ V-N → swearword, drophammer, playtime
◦ N-N hairnet. Mosquito net, butterfly net
◦ A-N blackboard, greenstone, faintheart
◦ P-N in-group, outpost,overcoat
HEADLESS COMPOUND
e.g : pickpocket, killjoy
Pickpocket is not a kind of pocket.
The word-class of these headless compounds is not determined by any element inside
them. It is called EXOCENTRIC → having a centre outside themselves.
Headed compounds → having an internal centre is called ENDOCENTIC
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UNIT 8
WORD FORMATION PROCESS (2)
THE TREE DIAGRAM OF THE COMPONDSNOUN COMPOUNDS
N N
N N N N
Fire engine green house
N
N
N
N N N Nbase ball bat rack
PLURALIZATION IN ENGLISH COMPOUNDS
ENDOCENTRIC EXOCENTRICOak leaves Maple leafs (a hockey club )Wisdom teeth Sabretooths ( species of tiger)Club feet Bigfoots ( species of tiger)Policemen Walkmans
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EXERCISE
1.Determine whether the compounds endocentric or exocentrica. hairdryer b.bigmouth c.skinheadd. armchair e.bath towel f pickpocket
2. Draw a tree diagram for the compound wordsa. football g.tree-trunkb. yardstick c.,sunbatherd. in-crowde.fastfoodf.sofware
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UNIT 9
WORD FORMATION (3)
AFFIXATION
An affix is a morpheme which only occurs when attached to some other morpheme or morphemes such as root or stem or base.3 types of affixes : prefixes suffixes infixes
derivational affixes
2 kinds of affixes
Inflectional affixes
In English it is common to distinguish between two sets of derivational affixes.
Class 1 affixesMost of which are Latinate-Trigger changes : in the vowel or consonant segments of the base Affect the assignment of stress
Affix Sample Change trigger by affix-ity San-ity,
Public-ityVowel in the base from /ei/ to /әe/ (sane)Final consonant of the base changesfrom /k/ to /s/
-y Democrac- y Final consonant of the base changes from /t/ to /s/
-ive Product-ive Stress shifts to 2nd syllable-(i)al Part-ial Final consonant of the base changes
from /t/ to /ζ/-ize Public-ize Final consonant of the base change from /k/
to /s/-ious Audac-ious Final consonant of the base change from /s/
to /ζ/ (audacity)-ion Nat-ion Final consonant of the base change from /t/
to /ζ/
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Some class 2 affixes
Affix Sample word Change trigger by affix-ness Prompt-ness None-less Hair-less None-ful Hope-ful None-ly Quiet-ly None-er Defend-er None-ish Self-ish None-able Commend-able None
The various possibility are :Domest-ic-ity spac-ious-ness fear-less-ness Root 1 1 root 1 2 root 2 2
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UNIT 10
WORD FORMATION PROCESS (4)
CONVERSION (ZERO DERIVATION)Conversion is a process that assigns an already existing word to a new syntactic
category. Even though it does not add an affix, conversion resembles derivation because of the change in the category and meaning that it brings about.Eg. He buys a comb. ( a comb → a noun) He combs his hair (comb → a verb)
REDUPLICATION
The morphological process that exists in several languages (but not English). Reduplication is repeating the entire word (full reduplicariction) or partial reduplication.e.g. It’s a big…big ..dog.
MORPHEME INTERNAL CHANGES
Although the usual pattern of plural formation is to add an inflectional morpheme, some English words make an internal modificationSing-plural → man –men tooth-teeth foot- feet geese-goosepast/past participle formation → break-broke-broken sing-sang-sungword class → live (V) – life (N) breath - breathe
SUPPLETION
A morphological process where a root morpheme is replacing by phonologically unrelated form. de. g : go – went – gne is-are-been
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EXERCISE :1.Each of the following columns illustrates a different morphological process.a.A what morphological process is at work in column A, B, C?b.Describe in your own words the difference between the process in column A and B. A B CMouse/mice go/went rdcord/recoreRide/rode is/was rtmport/impoiTake/took good/better nt(o)mprint/imprii
2.Analysis the following compounds :Week-end, hairdresser, kind-hearted. (k)
3 What verbs can be formed by prefixation, suffixation, or conversion.Full empty poor rich long short active national humble proud
4.-full was discussed only as a suffix for deriving nouns from adjective. Give examples to show that it can also be used to derive nouns from other nouns
5.- ism was discussed only as suffixes deriving nouns from adjectives. Give examples to show that it can also be used to derived nouns from other nouns.
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UNIT 11
WORD FORMATION PROCESS (5)
ACRONYMSFormed by taking the initial sounds (letters) of the words of a phrase and uniting them into a combination which is itself pronounceable as a separate word.e.g : NATO →.North Atlantic Treaty
BACK FORMATIONBack formation makes use of a process called analogy to derive new words, but in a rather backward manner (creates a new word by removing a real or supposed affix from another word in the language.)Eg. Television → televise (v) Donation → donate (v)
BLENDINGAre words that are created from non-morphemic parts of two already existing items.e.g : smog → smoke and fog brunch → breakfast and lunch
CLIPPINGis a process that shortens a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables.e.g : prof - professor burger – hamburger
COINAGEWords is created without using any of the methods.e.g.: KODAK HONDA
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CLITIC
Some words are unable to stand alone as independent forms for phonological reasons, called clitics.Clitic must be attached to another word in the sentence
e.g I’m leaving ↓ clitic
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