外语教学法第三章
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1,The definition of morphology
Morphology is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.形态学是语法学的一个分支,它研究的是单词的内在结构及单词的构成规律。
Morphology is divided into two sub-branches: inflectional morphology and lexical or derivational morphology.屈折形态学和词汇形态学/派生形态学
Inflectional morphology studies the inflections.研究单词的屈折变化。
Lexical morphology is the study of word-formation.研究构词法。
2,Morpheme
Morpheme ----- free morpheme
语素——自由语素
——黏着语素——词根
Morpheme: the smallest meaningful unit of language.语言最小的意义单位。Just as a phonome is the basic unit in the study of phonology, so is a morpheme the basic unit in the study of morphology.
3,Types of morphemes: free morphemes and bound morphemes
Free morphemes: free morphemes are the morphemes which are independent unit of meaning and can be used freely all by themselves or in combination with other morpheme.例子
Bound morphemes: bound morphemes are the morphemes which cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.
4,Bound morphemes include two types: roots and affixes
Roots: a root is often seen as part of a word; it can never stand by itself although it bears clear, definite meaning; it must be combined with another root or an affix to form a word. (Such roots are numerous in English.)例子
Affixes:
(1)Affixes are of two types: inflectional and derivational
Inflectional affixes: inflectional affixes or inflectional morphemes manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree and case.
Derivational affixes: derivational affixes are added to an existing form to create a word.(this is a very common way to create new words in English.) Such a way of word-formation is called derivation and the new word formed by derivation is called a derivative. The existing form to which a derivational affix can be added is called a stem.
(2)Affixes are divided into two kind: prefixes and suffixes, according to its position in the new word.
Prefixes: prefixes occur at the beginning of a word. Prefixes modify the meaning of the stem, but they usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.
Suffixes: suffixes are added to the end of the stems; they modify the meaning of the original word and in many cases change its part of speech.
5,Morphological rules
There are rules that govern which affix can be added to what type of stem to form a new word.
In using the morphological rules, we must guard against overgeneralization.
6,Compounding
Like derivation, compounding is another
popular and imp
Types of compound words: there are various ways to classify the compound words.
7,Features of compounds复合词特征---例子
Orthographically, a compound can be
written as on
Syntactically, the part of speech of the compound is generally determined by the part of speech of the second element.从句法上来讲,复合词的词类一般都是由单词中第二个成分所决定的。
Semantically, the meaning of a compound is often idiomatic, not always being the sum total of the meanings of its components.从语义的角度来看,一个复合词的意义经常是约定成俗的,而不总是它各个组成部分意义的综合。
Phonetically, the stress of a compound
always falls on the first element, while the second element
receives secondary stress. This is imp