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What is the primary function of inflectional morphemes in language?
What is the primary function of inflectional morphemes in language?
To change the form of the words to conform to grammatical and usage norms without changing the meaning of the words.
How do inflectional morphemes affect the meaning of words?
How do inflectional morphemes affect the meaning of words?
They do not change the meaning of the words.
What types of inflectional morphemes can be found in language?
What types of inflectional morphemes can be found in language?
Simple present tense, simple past tense, plural, progressive, and gerund.
What is the purpose of analyzing inflectional morphemes in song lyrics?
What is the purpose of analyzing inflectional morphemes in song lyrics?
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What can be concluded about inflectional morphemes from the analysis of song lyrics?
What can be concluded about inflectional morphemes from the analysis of song lyrics?
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What is the primary focus of morphology in linguistics?
What is the primary focus of morphology in linguistics?
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What is the term for the minimal typical unit of grammar in morphology?
What is the term for the minimal typical unit of grammar in morphology?
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How can word formation be described in terms of vocabulary expansion?
How can word formation be described in terms of vocabulary expansion?
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What is the purpose of discovering the rules of word formation?
What is the purpose of discovering the rules of word formation?
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What is an example of a borrowed word from Turkish?
What is an example of a borrowed word from Turkish?
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What are the two main research questions addressed in the study of mobile application names in Google Play Store?
What are the two main research questions addressed in the study of mobile application names in Google Play Store?
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What is the significance of studying word formation processes in the context of mobile application names?
What is the significance of studying word formation processes in the context of mobile application names?
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What is the term for the process of creating new words by combining existing words or parts of words?
What is the term for the process of creating new words by combining existing words or parts of words?
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What is the term for the process of shortening a longer word or phrase to create a new word?
What is the term for the process of shortening a longer word or phrase to create a new word?
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How many word formation processes are identified in morphology?
How many word formation processes are identified in morphology?
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Study Notes
Inflectional Morphemes in Song Lyrics
- Inflectional morphemes change the form of words but do not change their meaning.
- Inflectional morphemes can change to other types, such as:
- Simple present tense
- Simple past tense
- Plural
- Progressive
- Gerund
- This is to emphasize the meaning of words.
Song: "You Are the Reason"
- Examples of inflectional morphemes found:
- -es (third-person singular)
- -ing (progressive)
- -en (past perfect)
- -s (plural)
- -er (comparative)
Song: "If You Ever Change Your Mind"
- Examples of inflectional morphemes found:
- -s (plural)
- -ed (past tense)
- -ed (past perfect)
- -ing (progressive)
- -s (possessive)
- -s (third-person singular)
Song: "Rise"
- Examples of inflectional morphemes found:
- -ing (progressive)
- -ing (gerund or noun)
- -ing (gerund or noun)
- -s (plural)
Conclusion
- Inflectional morphemes are additions to words that maintain the core meaning of the base word.
- They conform to grammatical and usage norms.
- Multiple morphemes were found embedded in the lyrics of Calum Scott's songs on the album Bridges.
Word Formation Processes
- Coinage is a word formation process that invents a new word that has not existed before, e.g. ebaying, xeroxing, and googling.
- Compounding is a process of joining two words to create a single word, e.g. footprint, girlfriend, textbook, and notebook.
- Blending is a process of combining two separate words to form a single word, but with parts of the words removed, e.g. motel (motor + hotel), brunch (breakfast + lunch), and staycation (stay + vacation).
- Clipping is a process of shortening words from the original ones, e.g. ad (advertisement), pop (popular music), and gas (gasoline).
- Back formation is a process of forming a new word from an existing word by reducing it to form a new part of speech, e.g. lazy (laze), edit (editor), and actor (act).
- Conversion is a process of forming a new word class from an existing word that involves zero derivation, e.g. the word need as a noun and need as a verb.
- Acronym is a process of forming a new word using the initial letters of a group of words, e.g. WHO (World Health Organization), ASAP (As Soon As Possible), and RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging).
- Derivation is a process of forming a new word from an existing word with the addition of bound morphemes, e.g. happiness from happy + -ness and sadly from sad + -ly.
- Multiple process is a process that involves more than one process to form a word, e.g. snowball (compounding) and snowballed (compounding + conversion).
Examples of Word Formation Processes
- Cups: derivation (N [N cup] [Aff s])
- DIY: multiple process (N [v do] [Det it] [Det your] [Aff self]] [N note] [N book])
- Spotify: blending (N [N spot] [V identify] [Aff -ify])
- CapCut: blending (N [V capture] [N cap]] [v cut])
- Makeup Plus: multiple process (N [V make] [Prep up] [N makeup]] [Adj plus])
- Beautify: derivation (N [N beauty] [Aff fy])
- StoryLab: multiple process (N [N story] [N laboratory] [N lab])
- PUBG: multiple process (N [V play] [Aff er]] [V know] [V known] [Adj unknown]
- StromGain: compounding (N [N storm] [N gain])
- Cryptogram: compounding (N [N crypto] [N gram])
Research Findings
- Multiple processes dominate the other processes, occurring in 4 applications.
- Compounding processes occurred in 2 applications, followed by blending processes with 2 occurrences, and 2 in the derivation process.
- Clipping, acronym, coinage, and borrowing processes were not found in this study.
Literature Review
- Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words and how they are formed.
- Word formation process is the rules of how to produce new words.
- There are eight word formation processes in morphology, including borrowing, coinage, compounding, blending, clipping, back formation, conversion, acronym, derivation, and multiple processes.
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