Sunday, June 14, 2009

Morphology and Word Formation

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF WORDS AND WORD FORMATION

  • Morphological structure of words

Segmentation of words into its morphemes, that is, meaningful parts.

Rewrites reorganizes retains

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  • Word formation

The process of creating new words from the material available in the language after certain structural and semantic patterns.

  • Affixation

read - reader, readable, reading

  • Composition

room - living-room, dining-room, bedroom

  • Conversion

to look – a look

to smile - a smile

  • Shortening

laboratory - lab

telephone - phone

CONCLUSIONS

Morphological structure: meaningful units that form a word.

Word-formation: patterns to form words

verb + er

driver

writer

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