THE LEXEME WORD-FORM GRAMMATICAL WORD MORPHEME MORPH ALLOMORPH WHAT IS WORD? THE LEXEME WORD-FORM GRAMMATICAL WORD MORPHEME MORPH ALLOMORPH

WHAT IS WORD? Term used intuitively in everyday language for a basic element of language. a single unit of language which has meaning and can be spoken or written.

(a) phonetic-phonological level: words are the smallest segments of sound that can be theoretically isolated by word accent and boundary markers like pauses, clicks. morphological level, words are characterized as the basic elements of grammatical paradigms like inflection and are distinguished from the morphologically characterized word forms, cf. write vs writes, wrote, written;

The lexeme What are you going to do when you were reading a book and you found the word “exhausted” for the first time? e.g “ I saw that man was so exhausted”. Look up dictionary and check “exhaust”. This basic base of abstrack vocabulary item iscalled “lexeme”.

WORD-FORM The word see, sees, seeing, saw and seen as five different words which come from the same lexeme.

Grammatical Word Noun Adjective Verb Tense Gender Number

Morpheme Morphology is the sudy of word structure. It can be seen that many words are morphologicallly simple. E.g  the, book, she, desk, eat, boot.etc The term morpheme is used to refer the smallest, indivisble unit which words are made up.

Morph A morph is a physical form representing some morpheme in a language. I parked the car. She parks the car. We park the car. The past tense of regular verb in English spelled –ed, has different in sound /id/, /d/, /t/. It named different morph with same morpheme. When they grouped together, it is allomorph.