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    Name: Cristina Daniel Mavie

    Subject: Morphology

    Normal exame

    Lecture: Dionisio Mavume

    1. What’s morphology?

    A: the term morphology is Greek and is a makeup of morph which means” meaning , shape
    and form” and ology which means “the study of something.”

    Morphology is the study of the internal structure of word (Katamba, 1993:3).

    2. Distinguish lexeme from grammatical word.

    By lexeme we refer to the vocabulary items that are listed in the dictionary (cf. Di Sciullo
    and Williams, 1987).

    Lexeme is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through
    inflection. For example in English, see, sees, seeing, sow and seen are forms of the same
    lexeme which is represented as RUN. While grammatical word refers to the representation of
    a lexeme that is associated with certain morph-syntactic properties9i.e. partly morphological
    and partly syntactic properties) such as noun, adjective, verb, tense, gender, number etc. we
    can consider the following sentence:

    The cat is on the mat. In this example, the words “ the, is and on” are grammatical words.
    They help to define the structure of the sentence and clarify the relationships between the
    nouns “cat and mat”.

    3. Distinguish root from base?

    Root is the irreducible core of a word, with absolutely nothing else attached to it. It is the part
    that is always present, possibly with some modification, in the various manifestations of a
    lexeme. For example, walk is a root and it appears in the set of word-forms that instantiate
    the lexeme WALK such as walk, walks, walking and walked. While base is any unit
    whatsoever to which affixes of any kind can be added. The affixes attached to a base may be
    inflectional affixes selected for syntactic reasons or derivational affixes which alter the
    meaning or grammatical category of the base.

    Base in an structure to which an affix may be attached. E.g.: crow- base consisting of a
    single root; crows- base consisting of a single root, stem + gram. Affix.

    4. Explain the following word formation processes and provide examples: back-
    formation; clipping; coinage.

    Backformation: is a word formation process which consists of typically taking a word of


    one type ( usually a noun) and reducing it to form another type ( usually a verb). E.g.: edit
    from editor; televise from television and donate from donation.

    Clipping: refers to the process of removing some segments of an existing word to create a
    synonym. E.g.: photograph-photo; motorbike-bike and laboratory-lab.

    Coinage: refers to the inventing of a new word or phrase in a language. usually results from
    advances in technology or developments of society. E.g.: with the inventation of new objects
    or things there is a need of coining or inventing new terms to denote such objects or things.
    For instance with the inventation of the object computer here was a need of inventing the
    term to donate such object.

    5. English is an inflecting language. Do you agree? Explain.

    Inflected language refers to the language that changes the form or ending of some words
    when the way in which they are used in sentence changes. So yes I agree. But is only mildly
    inflected. While it does have some inflectional forms, such as verb conjugations. For
    example (walk, walks, walked and walking) and plural nouns ( cat and cats) it relies more on
    word order and auxiliary words to convey grammatical relationship.

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