2.1. Morphemic and Categorial Word Structure

''' 1. Topics for Discussion: '''

 1. What’s the basic unit of language and speech – common suspects?

 2. Describe the procedure and gains of morphemic distributional analysis.

 3. Disputes over analytical grammatical form and the idea of “grammatical idiomatism”.

 4. What is “Allo-Emic" theory about?

 5. Compare traditional and distributional classifications of morphemes.



''' 2. Activities and practical assignments '''

 1)              Exemplify both traditional and distributional classification of morphemes.

 2)              Give examples of either type of oppositional reduction (casual laid-back speech vs. deliberately expressive speech).

 3)              Make a sentence with the words category and paradigm that would make sense.

 4)              Give examples of binary privative and tertiary oppositions in morphology.

 5)               State the morphemic composition of the following words: listeners, will take, unreasonable, has built, was running, outlook, geese, kinder, supplementary, prerevolutionary, mushroom, misleading, manly, was being drawn, gentlemen, battleship, drove, dogs, scarves, hairdresser, football, unreasonable, misunderstanding, sheep, made, reading, has done, should have called, Alan’s, forget-me-not, strawberry, blackberry 

 Key Terms 

 1. All types of morphemes (bound, covert, discontinuous, replasive, etc.)

 2. The “allo-emic" theory

<p style="margin-left:17.85pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0cm;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 15.0pt left 36.0pt"> 3. Types of distribution: contrastive and non-contrastive; complementary

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<p style="margin-left:17.85pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 0cm;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 15.0pt left 36.0pt"> 10. distribution