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    This document outlines a course on English morphology taught by Dr. Gechemba Nyakoe. The purpose of the course is to equip learners with theoretical and practical principles of morphological analysis. By the end of the course, learners will be able to explain morphological concepts, discuss word formation, and analyze words using morphological theories. The course outline covers topics like defining words, lexical relations, word formation processes, word functions, morphemes, and morphological alternations. The reading materials provided support learning morphology through comprehensive references on the English language.

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    This document outlines a course on English morphology taught by Dr. Gechemba Nyakoe. The purpose of the course is to equip learners with theoretical and practical principles of morphological analysis. By the end of the course, learners will be able to explain morphological concepts, discuss word formation, and analyze words using morphological theories. The course outline covers topics like defining words, lexical relations, word formation processes, word functions, morphemes, and morphological alternations. The reading materials provided support learning morphology through comprehensive references on the English language.

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    This document outlines a course on English morphology taught by Dr. Gechemba Nyakoe. The purpose of the course is to equip learners with theoretical and practical principles of morphological analysis. By the end of the course, learners will be able to explain morphological concepts, discuss word formation, and analyze words using morphological theories. The course outline covers topics like defining words, lexical relations, word formation processes, word functions, morphemes, and morphological alternations. The reading materials provided support learning morphology through comprehensive references on the English language.

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    RONGO UNIVERSITY

    DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

    COURSE CODE & TITLE: LIN 221: English Morphology

    COURSE LECTURER: Dr. Gechemba Nyakoe

    COURSE PURPOSE: To equip the learner with theoretical and practical principles of
    morphological analysis

    EXPECTED OUTCOMES: The learner will be able to


    a) Explain the concepts used in morphology
    b) Discuss the concepts of word formation
    c) Analyze words using the morphological theories

    COURSE OUTLINE:

    1. A) What is Word :
    Criteria for defining words
     Orthographic
     Phonological
     Semantic
     Syntactic
     Morphological
     Lexical

    B) Lexical relations
     synonyms
     homonyms
     antonyms
     homophones
     homographs
     hyponyms
     entailment

    C) Word formation Processes


    -compounds
    -blends
    -acronyms
    -backformations
    -clips
    1) Word functions
    a) Open Vs Closed sets
    Parts of speech
    (i) Nouns
     proper nouns
     common nouns
     collective/mass nouns
     abstract nouns
     concrete nouns
    (ii) Pronouns
     Personal
     demonstrative
     relative
     interrogative
    (iii) Verbs
    (vi) Adjectives
    (v) Adverbs
    (vi) Prepositions
    (vii) Articles

    b) Definition of the morphemes


     internal structure of words
     Lexeme, morpheme, morph, root, stem, base
    c) Types for Morphemes
     Free Vs Bound morphemes
     Transparent Vs Opaque lexemes
     Inflectional/Derivational morphemes.
    d) Morpheme variants or allomorphs
     Plural and its phonological shapes
     Past tense and its phonological shapes
     Present tense and its phonological shapes
     Possessive and its phonological shapes
    e) Morphological conditioned alternants
     Suppletion
     Vowel change
     Zero morpheme
    (e ) Irregular alternants
    Reading Materials
    Quirk, R. (1962) The Use of English. Longman: London: Longman

    Quirk, R. et.al.(1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

    Bauer, L. (1983) English Word Formation. Cambridge: C.U.P.

    Fromkin and Rodman (1988). An Introduction to Language. Holt, Reinhard and Winston Inc.

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