Morpheme (词素）
he morpheme is the minimum or smallest grammatical unit, also the smallest meaningful element of speech.
最小的语法单位，也是最小的语义单位
The word is composed of one or more than one morpheme.
Affixation: free morpheme + bound morphemes(affix) = derivatives
(prefix) ﹢ root/base ﹢ (suffix)
e.g. monotone, carelessness, inconvenience
A compound, the product of composition, “is a lexical unit consisting of more than one base and function both grammatically and semantically as a single word.”
Conversion, a very productive way of producing new words in English, is “the derivational process whereby an item is adapted or converted to a new word class without the addition of an affix.”
A blend is a new word formed from parts of two other words.
An acronym is a word coined by putting together the initial letters of a group of words. Examples:
Aids = acquired immune deficiency syndrome
UN ﹦ The United Nations
CBD ﹦ central business district
CEO ﹦ chief executive officer
VIP ﹦ very important person
CPI ﹦ consumer price index
FYI ﹦ for your information
Morpheme
morpheme is the minimum or smallest grammatical unit, also the smallest meaningful element of speech
The word is composed of one or more than one morpheme
A phrase consists of one or more than one word, usually a string of words built up around a head word which determines both the class that the phrase belongs to and the way the phrase is structured. We recognize five phrase classes:
The clause is composed of one or more than one phrase. A full-fledged clause is structurally a sequence of phrases and logically a construction of “subject + predicate”
The sentence is the highest rank of grammatical unit. Consisting of one or more than one clause, the sentence is also the basic linguistic unit of connected discourse; it can stand alone and perform a function in social communication. Thus, a sentence can be defined as a grammatical unit that can perform a communicative function.
A text, spoken or written, is a structurally cohesive and semantically coherent unit realized by a string of sentences for communicative purposes.
he morpheme is the minimum or smallest grammatical unit, also the smallest meaningful element of speech.
最小的语法单位，也是最小的语义单位
The word is composed of one or more than one morpheme.
Affixation: free morpheme + bound morphemes(affix) = derivatives
(prefix) ﹢ root/base ﹢ (suffix)
e.g. monotone, carelessness, inconvenience
A compound, the product of composition, “is a lexical unit consisting of more than one base and function both grammatically and semantically as a single word.”
Conversion, a very productive way of producing new words in English, is “the derivational process whereby an item is adapted or converted to a new word class without the addition of an affix.”
A blend is a new word formed from parts of two other words.
An acronym is a word coined by putting together the initial letters of a group of words. Examples:
Aids = acquired immune deficiency syndrome
UN ﹦ The United Nations
CBD ﹦ central business district
CEO ﹦ chief executive officer
VIP ﹦ very important person
CPI ﹦ consumer price index
FYI ﹦ for your information
Morpheme
morpheme is the minimum or smallest grammatical unit, also the smallest meaningful element of speech
The word is composed of one or more than one morpheme
A phrase consists of one or more than one word, usually a string of words built up around a head word which determines both the class that the phrase belongs to and the way the phrase is structured. We recognize five phrase classes:
The clause is composed of one or more than one phrase. A full-fledged clause is structurally a sequence of phrases and logically a construction of “subject + predicate”
The sentence is the highest rank of grammatical unit. Consisting of one or more than one clause, the sentence is also the basic linguistic unit of connected discourse; it can stand alone and perform a function in social communication. Thus, a sentence can be defined as a grammatical unit that can perform a communicative function.
A text, spoken or written, is a structurally cohesive and semantically coherent unit realized by a string of sentences for communicative purposes.
