Seminar 1 – Morphemic structure of the word
1) Write a synopsis according to the following plan:
1 The word and the morpheme.
2 Traditional classification of morphemes.
3 Allo-emic theory in morphology.
4 Distributional classification of morphemes.
2) Dwell on the following points in details:
Word and morpheme, their relative status in the structure of language. The
problem of definition of the word. Word as a nominative unit of language and the
central unit of morphology. Morpheme as the smallest meaningful part of the
word.
Traditional classification of morphemes. Root and affixes - suffixes,
prefixes, inflexions. Lexical and grammatical morphemes. Outer and inner
inflexion. The notion of zero morpheme.
Allo-emic theory in morphology. Notions of morph, allo-morph and
morpheme. Types of morpheme distributions: contrastive, non-contrastive,
complementary. Distributional classification of morphemes. Free, bound, overt,
covert, segmental, suprasegmental, continuous, discontinuous morphemes.
Complementary character of the two classifications.
Literature
1. Blokh М.У. A Course in Theoretical English Grammar. - M., 1983, ch.II.
- p. 17-26.
2. Иванова И.П., Бурлакова В.В., Почепцов Г.Г. Теоретическая
грамматика современного английского языка, § 1.0.1.- 1.0.2. - М., 1981, - C.49.