Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Foundation MORPHOSYNTAX

Morphology is the study of Morpheme. The system of the internal structure of words.

Morphemes are words, word stem, and affixes. It's basically the unit of language one up from phonemes. Although, they are often understood as units of meaning. They are usually considered a part of languages' syntax or grammar. In the other words, Morphemes are the smallest unit that carry meaning or fulfill some grammatical function.
Free Morpheme is the word which can stand by itself.
Bound Morpheme is the word which can't stand by itself.

Syntax is the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences.

Morphosyntax is the set of rules that govern linguistic units whose properties are definable by both morphological and syntactic criteria.

Relation between Morphology and Syntax that Morphology is considered as languages' syntax.


AFFIXES
1. Suffixes (Imbuhan akhiran); are attached to the end of stem.
Plural (-es, -s), Present participle (-ing), Past tense of most verb (-ed).
2. Infixes (Imbuhan  sisipan); are attached in the middle of stem.
3. Prefixes ( Awalan); are attached to the front of stem.
Un-, Im-, Dis-, In-, Pre-, Re-.
4. Ablaut; is a changed in a vowel that carries extra meaning.
(sing, sang, sung), (drink, drank, drunk), (swim, swam, swum), (fall, fell, fallen), etc.
5. Reduplication; is a matter of doubling a syllable to do the same.
 

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