2. Issues 1. Introduction to Grammar 2. Morphemes and Words 3. Ways of word formation 4. Parts of speech 5. Parts of a sentence 6. Types of phrases, clauses, sentences
7. Morphemes and Words I actually felt tired of sitting doing nothing. And I hated enjoying the unemployment benefit. I found myself useless. Then I decided to look for a job. I found myself useless. hated enjoying hated, enjoying enjoy, -ing 2 2/2 discourse sentence phrase word morpheme
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9. Lexical item – meaning LEXICAL ITEM MEANING & Lexical item and meaning has arbitrary relationship. 2 4/2
10. Morpheme - Word MORPHEME = A minimal meaningful unit E.g.: re/try boy/s 5/2 2
11. Morpheme - Word WORD = An independent meaningful unit. E.g.: try boy turn return 2 6/2
13. Inflectional vs. Derivational morphemes 2 8/2 Inflectional morphemes Derivational morphemes modify the meaning of an item but not change its parts of speech. can change meaning of the stem and typically, they change the part of speech.
14. Inflectional vs. Derivational morphemes 2 9/2 Inflectional morphemes Derivational morphemes are changes in words to express their semantic and syntactic relationships to other words in the sentence. E.g.: ‘-s’ in ‘Bush says’ indicates the present tense and the subject is third person and singular. indicate semantic relationships within words. E.g.: the morpheme ‘-ful’ in ‘beautiful’ has no connection with other morphemes beyond the word.
15. Inflectional vs. Derivational morphemes 2 10/2 Inflectional morphemes Derivational morphemes are regularly distributed. They occur with all or most members of a word class. E.g.: ‘-s’ (3rd person singular present) occurs with most verbs. do not occur across whole classes. E.g.: not all verbs take the derivational suffix ‘-al’ as refuse , propose .
16. Inflectional vs. Derivational morphemes 2 11/2 Inflectional morphemes Derivational morphemes typically occur away from the root. E.g.: the plural morpheme ‘-s’ occurs at the end of a word, after all other morphemes. occur close to the root, before inflectional morphemes. E.g.: organizations .
17. Inflectional vs. Derivational morphemes 2 12/2 Inflectional morphemes Derivational morphemes -s : 3rd person singular present -ed : past tense -ing : present participle -en : past participle -s : Plural -s : possessive -er : comparative -est : superlative There are a large number of derivational morphemes, which can be prefixes or suffixes.
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19. Prefixation: adding a prefix to the base E.g.: Non -stop Pre dict Morphological processes of word formation 1/3 3
20. Suffixation: adding a suffix to the base E.g.: Econom ist Gramma tical Morphological processes of word formation 2/3 3
21. Conversion: a change of word-classes without affix. E.g.: Import (n), (v) Abstract (n), (adj) Morphological processes of word formation 3/3 3
22. Compounding: word formation from two or more bases. E.g. Greenhouse effect Desktop computer Morphological processes of word formation 4/3 3
23. Clipping: shortening a word E.g.: Phone from telephone Photo from photograph Flu from influenza Morphological processes of word formation 5/3 3
24. Reduplication: word formation from two or more either identical or slightly different elements. E.g.: Goody-goody Tick-tock Seesaw Wishy-washy Tip-top Morphological processes of word formation 6/3 3
25. Blending: word formation from two separate forms. E.g.: Motel from motor and hotel Smog from smoke and fog. Morphological processes of word formation 7/3 3
26. Acronym: word formation from initial letters of a series of words. E.g.: TV from television FAQ from frequently asked question. Morphological processes of word formation 8/3 3
27. Others Coinage Borrowing Morphological processes of word formation Backformation Sound + stress interchange Sound imitation E.g.: aspirin E.g.: boss, piano E.g.: opt ( opt ion) E.g.: conduct E.g.: kiwi, coo 3 9/3 See more in Appendix I
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29. Parts of speech Parts of speech Closed system Open class 4 1/4 See more in 2.12 - 2.17
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35. Parts of a sentence Parts of a sentence Subject Predicate 5 Operator 1/5 See more in 2.2 - 2.9
36. Parts of a sentence Parts of a sentence Subject Predicate 5 Operator What is being discussed – theme. E.g.: Her parents visit her sick uncle every day. 2/5
37. Parts of a sentence Parts of speech Subject Predicate 5 Operator What is being said about the subject – rheme. E.g.: Her parents visit her sick uncle every day . 3/5
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40. Parts of a sentence Sentence elements 5 Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial 6/5 See more in 2.10
41. Parts of a sentence Sentence elements 5 Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial E.g.: He sent me (Oi) a postcard (Od). 10/5 indirect (Oi) direct (Od)
42. Parts of a sentence Sentence elements 5 Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial E.g.: His brother who is a teacher (Cs) considers me his best friend (Co). 11/5 Object Complement (Co) Subject Complement (Cs)
43. Parts of a sentence Sentence elements 5 Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial E.g.: He goes fishing on Tuesday . (A opt) His birthday is on Tuesday . (A obli) 12/5 obligatory optional
44. Parts of a sentence Sentence elements 5 Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial 7/5 Intensive Extensive + Cs (1) + A (obli) (2) intransitive (3) transitive mono-transitive (4) di-transitive (5) complex-transitive (6,7)
45. Parts of a sentence Sentence elements 5 Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial 8/5 He is lovely. SVCs (1) intensive He is out of the office. SVA (obli) (2) He is crying. SV (3) intransitive extensive He broke the vase. SVO (4) transitive He sent me an e-mail. SVOO (5) He found the play boring. SVOCo (6) He put the vase on the table. SVOA (obli) (7)
46. Parts of a sentence Sentence elements 5 Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial Stative Dynamic Not progressive form Progressive form E.g.: The food he cooked tasted very good. E.g.: She is tasting the food he’s cooked. 9/5
48. Types of phrases, clauses, sentences Syntax Phrase Clause 6 Sentence Adverb phrase Adjective phrase Verb phrase Noun phrase Prepositional phrase E.g.: All these books are mine. E.g.: John has been looking for Jane. E.g.: Tom is a very interesting man. E.g.: He ran quite fast . E.g.: He’s lecturing on the new technology . 2/6
49. Types of phrases, clauses, sentences Syntax Phrase Clause 6 Sentence In terms of Clause’s elements & verb patterns In terms of kinds of verb phrases In terms of functions of the clause 3/6
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53. Types of phrases, clauses, sentences Syntax Phrase Clause 6 Sentence Complex compound Complex Compound Simple E.g.: All these books are mine. E.g.: He was watching T.V and she was cooking. E.g.: He didn’t want to talk to whoever he met in the London workshop. E.g.: Having seldom talked to anyone before, the child simply wide opened his beautiful eyes and looked at the stranger. 7/6