Approaches to Study Morphology

Question 1

1) Morpheme based approach
2) word based approach
3) similarities and differences

Answer 1

1)
+ morphology is the study of the combination of morphemes in order to yield words.

+ basic lexical entry - morphemes
Only one process operates on them- concatenation

+ morphological rules that concatenate the morphemes operate much the same way syntactic rules combine words.

Word- stem + inflectional suffix
Stem - (der pref)+ root + (der suffix)
             Stem+ stem 
Inflectional suffix - s,ed,
Der prefix- un, re
Root - bag, dog 
Der suffix - er, hood

+ due to the way word structure rules operate,
Morpheme based mode maximizes the similarity between morphology and syntax confirming one basic rule, hierarchical structure.
:) both morphology and syntax has hierarchical structure.

+ Concatenation is the morphological process that operates cross linguistically. (Common to most languages)

2
+Derive from the definition
“Morphology is the study of the systematic covariation in form and meaning of the word.

+ basic lexical entry - complete words
process that operates in them- formulating :)” word schemas” representative of the features common to morphologically relates words.

+ basic idea of the model -
Hear words ➡️ store them in mental lexicon ➡️ see similar patterns(build word schemas)➡️ adapt them to words with similar shape+ inflectional process.

Ex: bags, keys, cars
Word schema ‘xs’
Adapts this schema to nouns.

Word schemas carry information about pronunciation. Syntactic properties and meanings.

3)
Similarities
• both consists of a lexicon and a set of rules

Differences
MBM - lexicon is morphemes
WBM - lexicon is complete words

MBM- concatenation
WBM- word schemas