NewArchive / 03 - The main principles of morphemic analysis. Procedure of morphemic analysis. Classification of morphemes

3. A) The main principles of morphemic analysis.

B) Procedure of morphemic analysis.

C) Classification of morphemes.

The aim of the morphemic analysis is to state the number & type of morphemes that make up a word. This is the method of Immidiate (непосредственный) & Ultimate (конечный) Сonstituents.

B) In the course of the procedure we segment words into the constituent morphemess; each stage of the procedure involves 2 components (2 small meaningful elements) the word immediately breaks into. The analysis is completed when we arrive at the constituents that further can’t be derived – Ucs. Ungentlemanly: un+gentlemanly, gentleman+ly, gentle+man.

C) Morphemes may be classified:

1) structurally: morphemes fall into 3 types:

– free morphemes – coincide with the stem/ word-form; “frienship” where “friend” is a free morph that coincides with 1 of the forms of the noun “friend”.

– semi-free can function both as an affix & as a free morph: income – come in, well-known – to know well.

– bound morph occurs only as a constituent p-of-a w. Suffixes, unique roots, pseudo-roots – bound.

+ combining forms (Latin, Greek) tele-, graph-, micro-, phone-. Have a definite lex mg & peculiar stylistic reference. They are bound root-morphemes (have no p-of-sp mg typical of suffixes).

+ morph that are changing their class membership & occupy a kind of intermediate position. Posman, fisherman vs man-servant, man ≈ ^.

2) semantically:

*root-morpheme – has its individual lex mg shared by no other morpheme, it’s the nucleus of a wprd (helpless, handy,

*non-root/ affixational morphemes – include inflectional morphemes or inflections (carry only gram mg) and affixational morphemes & affixes (build different types of stems-the part of a word that remains unchanged throughout its paradighm.

Lexicology is concerned only with affixal morph. (mg proper, p-of-sp, generalized lex mg).