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Study of language; week 2
Morphology & Semantics
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Study of language; week 2
Morphology & Semantics

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recap week 1
chapter 1: origins of language
chapter 5: word formation
Learning aims:
  • You know a number of theories on the origin of language and you understand the ideas behind these theories.
  • You know the main processes involved in the introduction of new words into a language.
  • You can link these processes to examples.

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Learning aims:
By the end of this session you will be able to: 
  • explain what morphemes are 
  • identify morphemes in words and sentences 
  • recognize and name semantic/lexical relations between words. 

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chapter 6
Morphology

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morphemes
morphemes are the smallest units of language still having meaning or grammatical function.
There are free morphemes, that can stand alone and bound morphemes that need to be attached to a free morpheme.

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How many morphemes?
The girls quickly walked down the uneven path.
A
7
B
10
C
12
D
13

Slide 6 - Quiz

Free morphemes:

lexical: nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,..

functional: pronouns, prepostions, articles, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, etc
Bound morphemes:
derivational
changes meaning and/or word class, e.g. dis-, un-, im-, -less, ness, etc
inflectional: has a grammatical function: -s, -ing, er, etc

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My sister always likes to eat many biscuits.
How many lexical & how many functional morphemes?
A
4 + 4
B
3 + 5
C
5 + 3
D
4 + 5

Slide 8 - Quiz


The unkind brothers decided to sell their parents' wonderful garage.
How many derivational inflectional morphemes?
A
2 + 3
B
2 + 4
C
3 + 3
D
3 + 4

Slide 9 - Quiz

functional morpheme
lexical morpheme
inflectional morpheme
derivational morpheme
happy
ing
look
was
she
d
place
mis
sister
er
old
the
after
un
her
rabbit
s
quite

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chapter 9
Semantics

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meaning: 
referential or associative/emotive

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lexical relations: 

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lexical relations
Synonyms 
Antonyms 

Hyponyms / Prototypes 
Metonymy 
Collocation
Homophones  
Homonyms  
Polysemy

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synonyms
antonyms;
gradable
antonyms:
non-gradable
reversives
leave
enter
old
true
nice
agreable
new
 false

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hyponyms/
co-hyponyms
  • hyponym = a kind of ....
  • a daisy is a hyponym for flower
  • daisy & violet a co-hyponyms
rose is the prototype ("best" example)
flower is the superordinate
flower
Hyponomy

  • a Hyponym is "a kind of..."
  • Daisy is a hyponym of flower
  • Daisy and violet are co-hyponyms
  • Flower is the superordinate
  • The most characteristic hyponym = prototype


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what did you think of the date?
homonyms
polysemy

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homophones
homonyms
polysemy

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metonomy & collocation
metonymy
He drank the whole bottle?
collocation:
words that "belong" together


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next week
chapter 10: Pragmatics
chapter 11: Discourse analysis

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