morphemic structure of the word

MORPHEMIC STRUCTURE OF THE WORD

1. Read the excerpt from the E. Nida’s Morphology and answer the question: what are the main types of distributionally defined morphemes?

2. Do the morphemic analysis of the words on the lines of the traditional and distributional classifications.

MODEL: Do the morphemic analysis of the word “inseparable”.

On the lines of the traditional classification the word “inseparable” is treated as a three-morpheme word consisting of the root “-separ-“, the prefix “in-“ and the lexical suffix “-able”.

On the lines of the distributional analysis the root “-separ-“ is a bound, overt, continuous, additive morpheme; the prefix “in-“ is bound, overt, continuous, additive; the suffix “-able” is bound, overt, continuous, additive.

1. unmistakably, children’s (books), disfigured, underspecified, surroundings, presume, kingdom, brotherhood, plentiful, imperishable, unprecedented, oxen, embodiment, outlandish;

2. hammer, students’ (papers), sing – sang – singing – singer, really, proficient – deficient – efficient, gooseberry, unreproved, incomparable;

3. quiet, perceptions, wheaterina, bell, unbelievably, glassy, uncommunicative, inexplicable, infamy, strenuousness;

4. inconceivable, prefigurations, southernism, semidarkness, adventuresses, insurmountable, susceptibility, ineptitude, unfathomable, insufficiency, to prejudge, cranberry.

Lyons J. SEMANTICS

1. How does J. Lyons define the notion of “communication”?

2. When does a signal become “communicative” / “informative”?

3. How do the terms “communicative” and “meaningful” correlate?

4. In what does the difference in communication between the receiver and the addressee lie?

5. What makes communication successful, according to J. Lyons?