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Môn học: ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX

Chương 2: WORD

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Hi all
In the previous chapter, we talked about mophemes, types of morphemes according
to form and meaning, when we have free morphemes and bound morphemes, roots
and affixes. Mophemes are smallest unit of language that has meaning. When
morphemes are combined with each other, we have words. In this chapter, chapter
1 2, we are going to talk about words. We will have a look at
1. Definition of words
2. Classification of words
2.1. Simple words
2.2. Complex words
2.3. Compound words
We start a lesson with a definition of word.
A word can be be defined as “The smallest of the linguistic unit which can occur
on its own in speech or writing”.
2 EX: boy, girl. university
Next, we will talk about classification
Words can be classified into three main classes: simple, complex, and compound
words.
We now can have more details.
2.1. Simple words consist of a single free morpheme. You remember a free
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morpheme is a morpheme that can occur alone with meaning.
Example: fan, table, boy, girl
 You can give many other examples of simple words.
2.2. Complex words contain two bound morphemes or a bound and a free
morpheme.
In other words, a complex word may consist of a base (or root) and one or more
affixes (for example, quicker),
Example: tele vise tele phone
B B B F
Bookishness
We say that bookishness is a complex word, and immediate components are
bookish and -ness.
2.3. Compound words contain two or more free forms
Example: blackboard, school-girl, blackbird
Compound words can be distinguished from grammatical structures (noun phrase)
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in three ways:
Compound words can not be inserted, but grammatical structures can.
She is a sweetheart
compound word
She has a sweet heart ® She has a kind, sweet heart.
grammatical structure
A member of a compound word cannot participate in a grammatical structure.
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YES: It is a very hard ball
We can say NO: It is a very baseball.
Stress patterns
‘bluebird (CW) blue ‘bird (GS)
‘swimming teacher swimming ‘teacher
‘White house white ‘house
 This is the end of chapter 2. We have learnt about definition of words, threes kinds
6 of words: simple, complex and compound words. We also learnt to distinguish
between compound words and grammatical structures.