Theoretical English Grammar. Part 1. Morphology. Бочарова М.В. - 5 стр.

                          PART 1. TOPIC OUTLINE


            MORPHOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS


THE TRADITIONAL (STRUCTURAL) APPROACH TO LANGUAGE
PHENOMENA


o A language as a hierarchical structure of interrelated ‘layers’.
o The syntactic, lexical, morphological and phonological ‘layers’.
o Grammar: Morphology and Syntax.


o Morphology as part of grammar:
Derivatology (Lexical Morphology) and Morphology proper (Word grammar).


o The main objectives of Morphology proper:
– to study the internal structure of the word and means of word form building in
relation to the abstract meanings they express;
– to study general grammatical characteristics of words which enable them to
make up sentence;
– to classify words into a few basic classes.


o a hierarchy of units of morphological analysis:
– a morpheme;
– a word form.


o A morpheme is a unit of a lower rank. It is an element of a word which sig-
nals a certain abstract (grammatical) meaning. The defining characteristics of
the morpheme.


o What kind of meaning does a morpheme express? � a lot of controversy.

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