morphology

1. Grammar is
linguistics can be
taken to
mean the
entire system
of structure of the
language from its
sound to its
meaning.

2. • Generative , System, General
Phrases, Lexical. Word, Cognitive
Theoretical
Grammar
• Ordering of linguistic elements
form the smallest to the largest
units
Descriptive Grammar
• Grammar used by students and
the teacher
Pedagogic Grammar
• The ways of the people normally
speak.
Perspective Grammar
There are
basically
four
Identifia
ble kinds
of
gram
mar:

3. Thing describes
the structure
of language from its
smallest unit
call Descriptive
Grammar. Thus
grammar is actually as
shown this :
Every unit has
a function
given to such
a division

4. Morphemes
Fee & Bound
Allomorphs
Zero Allomorph
Inflection & Derivation

5. Fee
&
Bound
Morphemes that can stand alone
to function as words called : free
Morphemes
Examples : The, Happy, Come,
Go, etc
Morphemes that can not stand
alone to function as words called
: bound Morphemes
Examples : un, nir, ly, dis,etc

7. •an affix used to change form and function
only from grammatical with no change in
word’s Part of Speech
•Example :
•Walk = walks
•Walk = walked
•Walk = walking
Inflection
•an affix used to change form and function
from lexical poin with change in word’s Part
of Speech
•Examples :
•Universe (noun)
•Universal (adj)
•University (noun)
Derivations

8. With the morpheme
defined as the smallest
unit of grammatical,
next explanation’s unit is
“word” .
The morpheme can be
a word whiles the word is
not necessarily a
morpheme but consist of many
morphemes.

9. Sentence
Clause Clause
Phrase
Word
Morphemes
Phrase
Word
Morphemes
Clause
The
Grammatical
RANK-SCALE

11. Affixation Compounding
Reduplic
ation
Clipping
Acronymy
Other minor processes
•Blending
•Onomatopia
•Antonomasia
•Conversion

12. Reference
• Loga Mahesan Baskaran, A linguistic primer for Malaysians,
University of Malaya Press.