Morphological Structure of English Words

1.

MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE
OF ENGLISH WORDS

2.

Morphemes
(the smallest meaningful units of the language)
root morphemes
affixational morphemes
inflexions
boy – boy-s
derivational affixes
prefixes
dis-charge
suffixes
boy-ish

3.

STRUCTURAL TYPES OF ENGLISH WORDS :
•root words (корневые),
or simple words: make,
boy
monomorphemic
•derived words
(производные): maker,
boyish
polymorphemic
• compound words
(сложные cлова):
film-maker, boyfriend

4.

WORD STEM – PART OF A WORD TO WHICH
AFFIXES ARE JOINED (PART OF THE WORD
WITHOUT THE LAST ADDED AFFIX)
simple, or root stems:
danc-er – dance
derived stems: wonderful-ly – wonderful
compound stems: short-sight-ed – short-sight
Free stems - can
occur as separate words:
disagree – agree
Bound stems – cannot occur as separate words:
distort – tort.

5.

ANALYSIS INTO IMMEDIATE AND
ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS (АНАЛИЗ ПО
НЕПОСРЕДСТВЕННО СОСТАВЛЯЮЩИМ –
IC-ANALYSIS AND UC-ANALYSIS)
unbreakable
un
breakable
break
able
un + break + able

6.

untruly
UC: un-tru-ly
IC: un-truly or untru-ly ?
Un+ adjective stem – more
frequent than
Un+ adverb stem
IC: untru-ly