morphology
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Morphology
Morphology
is a part of Linguistics. It is a study of words. There are
some
definitions of morphology based on some experts as follow
s:
John Lions
(1968) says :
“....morphology
deals with the internal structure of
words...”
L.
Bloomfield ( 1973) says:
“ By the
morphology of a language we mean the
constructions
in which bound forms appear among the
constituents.”
H.A. Gleason
( 1970 ) says:
“....morphology
is the description of the more intimate
combinations
of morphemes, roughly what are familiarly
called
‘words’....”
Charles F.
Hockett ( 1958 : 177) says:
“Morphology
includes the stock or segmental morpheme
and the ways
in which words are built out of them”.
From the
definitions above we can conclude that Morphology is a branch
of
Linguistics that studies the word form, the forming process of word and also
its
changing in
forms which creates the difference in function and meaning.
Example Word :
Based on the
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary(1995:1374),
Word is
a sound or
group of sounds that expresses a meaning and forms an independent
unite of a
language.
From the
statement above, we can conclude that word is the
smallest
free element or we can also say that every free element is a word. There
are some
criterions that can be used to identify a word:
1. A word might
consists of one free morpheme. For example : sick, sleep,
fall, etc.
These are called simple words.
2. A word might
consists of one free morpheme and minimum one bound
morpheme.
For example: unlock, unreal,
dismiss, etc. These are called
complex
words.
3. A word might
consists of one bound morpheme or more with one more
bound
morpheme with it. From example : unbreakable, unfaithfully, etc.
These are
also called complex words.
4. A word might
consists of one free morpheme
and one free morpheme or
one bound
morpheme. For example in Bahasa we find the word:
matahari,
hulubalang, syahbandar. These are called compound word.
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