Traditionally,‘morphemes’are consisting complex morphophonological properties and syntactic-semantic properties.However,in realizational theories such as Distributed Morphology,which is a syntactic approach to word ...Traditionally,‘morphemes’are consisting complex morphophonological properties and syntactic-semantic properties.However,in realizational theories such as Distributed Morphology,which is a syntactic approach to word formation,morphemes are abstract bundle of features without phonological properties,e.g.pl,fem,masc,categorizers(Embick,2015)etc.Nevertheless,when language assigns phonological properties to those features(namely late insertion),they serve as vocabulary items instead of morphemes.This was confirmed by Marantz(2000:15),who proposed that‘…we see,overtly,the vocabulary items,not the morphemes.’Moreover,morphemes are generative and there is no any bound morpheme,all are free(Hankamer&Mikkelsen,2018).Vocabulary items are not generative but expandable and visibly they can either be free or bound.So this paper intends to elaborate these issues together with evidence from Hausa.The entire paper is divided into following subsections:Introduction,Distributed Morphology,morphemes and vocabulary items in Hausa and their differences,followed by Conclusion remarks.展开更多
Learning a foreign language is based on the master of its vocabulary. Vocabulary is one of the ＇bottlenecks＇ in the learning of English. It will greatly influence the expression in our communication. Both teachers a...Learning a foreign language is based on the master of its vocabulary. Vocabulary is one of the ＇bottlenecks＇ in the learning of English. It will greatly influence the expression in our communication. Both teachers and students need to pay much more attention to the learning of English vocabulary. This paper discusses the study of morphology from the perspective of modern linguistics, including the definitions of morpheme, types of morphemes, morphological structure and the main processes of word-formation of the language. Meanwhile, the author analyzes how the morphology study is applicable to English vocabulary teaching and learning in college, especially explores the purpose of the English vocabulary teaching in college, and finally proposes Some practical approaches of vocabulary teaching from the study of morphology.展开更多
文摘Traditionally,‘morphemes’are consisting complex morphophonological properties and syntactic-semantic properties.However,in realizational theories such as Distributed Morphology,which is a syntactic approach to word formation,morphemes are abstract bundle of features without phonological properties,e.g.pl,fem,masc,categorizers(Embick,2015)etc.Nevertheless,when language assigns phonological properties to those features(namely late insertion),they serve as vocabulary items instead of morphemes.This was confirmed by Marantz(2000:15),who proposed that‘…we see,overtly,the vocabulary items,not the morphemes.’Moreover,morphemes are generative and there is no any bound morpheme,all are free(Hankamer&Mikkelsen,2018).Vocabulary items are not generative but expandable and visibly they can either be free or bound.So this paper intends to elaborate these issues together with evidence from Hausa.The entire paper is divided into following subsections:Introduction,Distributed Morphology,morphemes and vocabulary items in Hausa and their differences,followed by Conclusion remarks.
文摘Learning a foreign language is based on the master of its vocabulary. Vocabulary is one of the ＇bottlenecks＇ in the learning of English. It will greatly influence the expression in our communication. Both teachers and students need to pay much more attention to the learning of English vocabulary. This paper discusses the study of morphology from the perspective of modern linguistics, including the definitions of morpheme, types of morphemes, morphological structure and the main processes of word-formation of the language. Meanwhile, the author analyzes how the morphology study is applicable to English vocabulary teaching and learning in college, especially explores the purpose of the English vocabulary teaching in college, and finally proposes Some practical approaches of vocabulary teaching from the study of morphology.
