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    ENGLISH MORPHO-SYNTAX

    Syllabus

    Assessment criteria Percent Score % of final grade

    Midterm exam 70% MIDTERM 30%

    Class activities 30%

    Final exam 100% FINAL 70%

    Midterm (60 mins)

    Part 1: Analyze the morphemic structure of 5 complex words

    Part 2: Identify the word-formation processes for 5 words

    Part 3: Identify allomorphs

    Part 4: An open question (lexical analysis)

    Final (90 mins)

    Part 1: Draw complete phrase-markers for 2 complex noun phrases and 1 complex verb phrase

    Part 2: Disambiguate 2 sentences by drawing 2 different phrase-markers for each sentence

    Part 3: Identify all non-finite clauses in 5 sentences and name their functions

    Part 4: Identify the verb groups in 10 sentences and classify them


    Part 5: Draw complete phrase-markers for 2 complex sentences (testing different kinds of clauses
    and both finite and non-finite clauses)

    Present 30 phút (giống hồi intro to Lings)

    Week 12: Burton-Roberts Chap 10 (thuyết trình :< )

    W1 –

    WORDS, SENTENCES, AND DICTIONARIES

    British national corpus (BNC) / corpus of American English (COCA)

    A. Words as: Types and Tokens

    Ex: “To be or not to be, that is the question.”

    - Word token: 10 (counting the words in the sentence)

    - Word type: 8 (lặp lại thì không đếm)

    - Word lemma: set of words having the same parts of speech

    Ex: approach-approacher-approached-approaching

    - Word family: all of the forms from the same source

    Ex: assume-assuming-assumingly-unassumingly

    Characteristic (Char.) 1 (meaning is unpredictable => must be listed in dictionaries)

    Word as meaningful units = W-types

    Example:

    Char.2 (building-bloacks out of which phrases and sentences are formed)


    W as building-blocks = W-tokens (have to consider the word it goes with to know the exact
    meaning of a word)

    Words that have meaning that are predictable

    - Onomatopoeic words (boom, oops, bang, meow, oink, quack)

    Words with predictable meanings

    Ex1: We may do not know the meaning of “happy” but can predict the meanings of its word
    family based on the suffixes?

    Happy

    Happiness (“-ness” –> the state/quality) -> the state of being happy

    Happily (“-ly” in an X fashion) -> in a happy fashion

    1. I keep notes on all my expenditure.


    2. I keep tabs on all my expenditure.
    “keep tabs on” is an idiom -> cannot guess the meaning of the phrase based on the
    meaning of single words

    Too man cooks spoil the broth


    A stitch in time saves nine.
    It’s no use crying over spilt milk

    Lexical items -> items with cha. 1

    Words -> items with cha. 2

    Cha.1: lexical items


    Ex: Single words: table

    Idiom: Kick the bucket

    Cha.2: building-block (viên gạch xây dựng nên sentence)

    Ex: Single words: table

    Happily (can predict the meaning based on the word “happy”)

    Idiom: Kick the bucket (vì đây không phải là individual words, và không predict meaning
    được)

    There are some words that are not lexical items, & there are some lexical items that are not
    words.

    Morphology

    The area of grammar concerned w the structure of words and with relationships between words
    involving the morphemes that compose them

    unhappily

    Morpheme

    The minimal units of meaning or grammatical function

    Reopened

    Open: a unit of meaning

    Re-: a unit of meaning (again)

    -ed: a unit of grammatical function (adj)

    Characteristics of morphemes

    1. Be identifiable from one word to another


    2. Contribute in some way to the meaning of the whole word
    Happiness

    Loneliness

    Sadness

    Tenths (ten, -th, -s)

    Attack stack tackle (do not share the morpheme “tack”)

    Morphemes are the constituents of words

    Boy Desire
    Boy + -ish Desir(e) + -able
    Boy + -ish + -ness Desir(e) + -abil + -ity
    Un- + desir(e) + -abil + -ity

    A WORD AND ITS PARTS: ROOTS, AFFIXES, AND THEIR SHAPES

    tranquilizer

    KINDS OF MORPHEMES: BOUND AND FREE

    Free
    + supply precise and concrete meaning

    + can stand on its own

    Bound
    + Cannot stand on its own
    Example: helpful

    Leg-ible (legal)

    Audi-ence (audio, auditory, …)

    Magn-ify

    Rend-ition

    Clar-ity

    Applic-ant

    All above words have bound roots (nếu có vài từ khác có cùng root mà mang nghĩa gần thì nó
    là bound roots)

    KINDS OF MORPHEMES: ROOT, AFFIX, COMBINING FORM

    unluckily

    Free M-free M Bound M-bound M Bound M-free M


    Bookcase Electrolysis Microfilm
    Motorbike Microscopy Electroacoustic
    Penknife Micro: combining form (bây
    giờ đã có thể tự đứng 1 mình
    vẫn có nghĩa)

    Groups of words that have the same base are related in meaning

    PHONe

    Bound M-bound M t
    Bound base Meaning Example
    audi- Hear Audible
    Audition
    -cide killing Suicide (self-kill)
    Patricide (
    ora- Mouth, speech Oration
    Oratory
    aqua- / aque- Water Aquarium
    Aqueous
    mor- Death, dead Immortal
    Mortal
    corp- The whole physical body/ group of people Corpse
    Corporation
    ten- Hold Tenable
    Tenant
    pend- Hang Suspender
    Impending
    man- Hand Manuscript
    Manual
    ject- Throw, shoot Reject
    Eject

    ALLOMORPHS

    cats dogs houses

    -s has 3 allomorphs /s/ /z/ /iz/

    An allomorph is ‘any of the different forms of a morpheme’.

    a. TYPES OF ALLOMORPHS
    1. Additive allo
    Ask + ed /a:skt/
     Sth is added to a word

    2. Replacive allo
    Drank /draenk/
     A sound is used to replace another sound

    3. Suppletive allo
    Go – went
    Be – is
    Bad – worse
     A complete change of the share of a word

    4. The zero allo


    Hurt – hurt
     No change of the share of the word (some difference in meaning)

    Xem chúng là 2 morphemes

    Reread

    Revisit

    Rewrite

    Repaint

    Xem là 2 morphemes thì re- được là /ri/ (meaning: again)

    Xem nó là 1 morpheme

    Return

    Restore

    Revise
    Reverse

    /r (e ngược)/ backward movement

    Nếu return là 1 morpheme thì

    Granberry morpheme (morpheme chỉ xuất hiện trong 1 trường hợp)

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