FIND WORD WHICH HAS AS MANY

MORPHEMES AS POSSIBLE
Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism: False
opposition to the separation of church and of the
state.
Pseudo-: fa ls e
Anti-: a g a ins t
Dis-: no t
Establish:
-Ment: the a c tio n/p ro c e s s o f …
-Arian: p e rs o n
-Ism: be lie f…
 WORD CAN BE MADE
LONGER BY ADDING
AFFIXES
 STRUCTURE OF WORD

No more than There may be No more than 1

1 prefix more than 1 inflectional
(which is derrivational suffix; usually
always suffixes comes last in
derrivational) the word
Examples:
-Tra ns p o rte rs
tra ns : prefix (across, through, beyond)
p o rt: bound base (carry)
e r: derrivational suffix (person)
s : inflectional suffix (plural)
-Inte rna tio na liz e d
na tio n: free base
inte r: prefix (among, between)
a l: derivational suffix (belong to)
iz e : derivational suffix (make)
e d : inflectional suffix (past/past participle)
-Unve rba liz e d
-Find ing s
 DERIVATION
 The formation of new words by adding affixes (class
changing or class maintaining) to words or morphemes

Base(root) + derivational affix(es)  New derived word

 Derivational paradigm:
A set of related words composed of the same base
morpheme and all the derivational affixes that can go
with this base

Ex: child , childhood, childlike, childish, childishness,

childishly, childless, childlessness
Inflection
The process of adding an affix ( suffix) to a word to
change its form according to grammar rules.

Stem + inflectional suffix  inflected forms of one

and the same word

Inflectional paradigm:
A set of related words composed of the same stem
and all the inflectional suffixes that can go with this
stem.
Ex: child , children, child’s, children’s
 Derivational/ Inflectional
paradigm
Man
 man, manly,  man, men, man’s.
manliness, unman, men’s
subman, reman,
superman, manlike,
manlikeness
Large
 large, largely,  large, larger, largest
enlarge, largish,
largesse, enlargement,
enlarger
Analyse these words:
Unfrie nd line s s
Info rm a lity
How are they formed? Which affixes
are added first to the base…?
 The process of adding affixes to
make new words
 IC-diagrams

Un friend li ness
 WORD IMMEDIA TE CONSTITUENTS (IC)

To analyse the structure of a word, we must

base on its hierarchical constituents (which
means that a constituent of a word can be a
constituent of another constituent of that
word) .
What are IC’s?
Any of the 2 meaningful parts forming a
larger linguistic unit.
WORD IMMEDIA TE CONSTITUENTS

How to divide a word into IC’s?

The first cut is b/w the inflectional suffix (if
any) and the rest of the word.
The IC’s should be free forms, having
meaning on their own.
The meaning of the IC’s should be related to
the meaning of the word
 WORD IMMEDIA TE CONSTITUENTS/ EX A MPLES

Discover (v): to find or learn sth new…

discover * discover
dis cover discov er(person who…)
(not) (put sth on sth to protect it)

* discover * discover
dis cover disc over
(not) cov er (CD) (above; across)
WORD IMMEDIA TE CONSTITUENTS
Examples:

inte rna tio na liz e d

inte rna tio na liz e ed

inte rna tio na l iz e

inte r na tio na l

na tio n a l