Transcript Analysing Morphemes Lesson 7A

Analysing
Morphemes
Lesson 7A
Analysing morphemes
You can do this in 2 ways
 By dividing it up with hyphens:
e.g. truth-ful-ness
 By using a tree diagram
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A
N
truth - ful - ness
Dividing with hyphens
Divide into base form + morphemes
truth
=
one morpheme
truthful =
base form + bound morpheme
truth-ful
truthfulness = base form + bound + bound
truth-ful-ness
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Can you divide these words?
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Colourful
Happiness
Unbelievable
Teacher
Monster
Rattlesnake
Can you divide these words?
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Colourful
colour-ful
Happiness
happi-ness
Unbelievable
un-believ-able
Teacher
teach-er
Monster
monster
Rattlesnake
rattle-snake
Constructing tree diagrams (1)
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Divide the word into its constuent morphemes e.g.
greed-i-ness
Decide the root and its grammatical category :
greed = noun (N)
Decide the grammatical category of all the new
words created by the other morphemes
greedy
=
adjective (A)
greediness =
noun (N)
Constructing tree diagrams (2)
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Write the divided word at the bottom of the page
greed-i-ness
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Write the grammatical
category of the root
and join it to the word:
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Write the grammatical
category of all the
new words created by
the other morphemes
and join them up
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greed
A
greed-i
N
greed-i-ness
Now write the word and connect up all the
categories. Can you label the boxes?
Well done!
Greed >
Greedy >
Greediness
Try this word - ‘specification’
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Can you divide it up with hyphens?
specif-ic-ation
specif- = ‘specify’ = root
What are the grammatical
categories ?
specif-ic-ation
specify = Verb
specific = Adjective
specification = Noun
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What will be the shape of the tree?
Well done! Now label it
Find the roots the following words
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unwholesome
whole
rulership
rule
underdeveloped
develop
overachiever
achieve
operational
operate
indispensable
dispense
Build the tree from the root
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un-whole-some
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whole
Add the next word that is
created to the tree
whole + some
this creates the new adjective wholesome
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whole
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some
Add the next word that is
created to the tree
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un + wholesome
this creates the new adjective unwholesome
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A
A
un
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whole-some
Draw tree diagrams for the
following words
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rul-er-ship
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under-develop-ed
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over-achiev-er
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operat-ion-al
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in-dispens-able
Analysing compounds
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Compound nouns can be a single word
with two base forms:
e.g.
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windmill = wind + mill
rattlesnake = rattle + snake
How do we analyse these ?
Drawing a tree of a 1-word
compound is easy
Windmill = noun
Wind = noun
Mill = noun
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wind-mill
black bird + black-bird
black bird
is a noun phrase
blackbird
is a compound noun
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NP
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N
black bird
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black-bird
Analysing 2-word compounds
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Compound nouns can also be made up
of two words
e.g. coffee table
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In this case you have to decide which
word is the head and which word is the
modifier
Where is the head in these
compounds
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coffee table
swimming pool
car park
dish washer
oven cleaner
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table
pool
park
washer
cleaner
dish washer
dish washer
washer
wash
-er
= noun
= noun
= verb
= bound morpheme
wash
= head
What shape is the tree?
Notice the label of the head
Analyse and draw a tree
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Coffee table
Swimming pool
Car park