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28. Speak on The difference between Morphemes, Morphs and Allomorphs.(examples)

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language.  The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word, by definition, is freestanding. Every word comprises one or more morphemes. Example:The word unladylike consists of three morphemes and four syllables.Morpheme breaks: un- 'not’;lady '(well behaved) female adult human';-like 'having the characteristics of'

The unit of grammatical form which realizes a morpheme is called a morph. In linguistics, a word segment that represents one morpheme in sound or writing. For example, the word infamous is made up of three morphs--in-, fam(e), -eous--each of which represents one morpheme.

Allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme. The concept occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound without changing meaning.Example:There are three allomorphs of the morpheme -s in English. Compare the sound of the -s in ‘cats', ‘dogs' and ‘foxes'.

30 Speak on Is Morphology necessary? What are the properties of Morphology that set it apart from Syntax?

Yes, morphology is necessary because the close connection of concepts and morphology of the word (in the same sense is often used a more precise term "word form") puts the very existence of the morphology on the existence of words in a particular language. Meanwhile, this concept is one of the most controversial in linguistics and, most likely, not universal. In other words, the word - is an object that exists, apparently, not in all languages, which means that not all languages ​​have a morphology and grammar as a separate section. In languages ​​that have no (or almost no) words, morphology can not be differentiated with the syntax: it does not remain an independent object or self-perspective. Not giving in this case, the exact definition of the word, we can point out the most important property that is its nature. Word - a syntactically independent set of morphemes forming tightly connected structure. Word different combinations of words from the fact that at least some of the elements can not be used in an isolated position syntax (e.g., appear as a response to the question), in addition, the elements within the word associated with each other much stiffer and stronger bonds than elements of the proposal (that is the word). The greater the degree of contrast in language between rigidity and interword connections, the more distinct and well allotted unit is a word in the language. These "verbal" languages ​​include, for example, the classic Indo-European languages ​​(Latin, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian). In these languages, the morpheme within a word does not have a syntactic autonomy, that is, the words can not be a syntactically behave in the same way as words. Cf. a few examples of the different behavior of words and parts of words in Russian.

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