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Aspects Of Uneme Morphology
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The third chapter focuses on the discussion of
various free and bound morphemes and their function in the language,
while the fourth chapter is devoted to the description of observable
Morphological processes employed to form words in the language. The
fifth chapter which is the last chapter rounds up the study by providing
the summary, recommendation and conclusion of the study.
Theoretical Frame work
Morphology
is a major field of Linguistics which deals with the internal structure
of words in a language. There are various theoretical frame works to
the study of Morphology which different scholars have been able to use
in analyzing morphology. As we all know that languages are different
from one another, the internal structure of language can not be seen in
the same line. This is why the theories for analyzing morphology are
different. Here we are to look at the various theoretical frameworks and
look at the one that will be suitable for our analysis. The following
are the theoretical framework of morphology.
ITEM AND ARRANGEMENT, ITEM AND PROCESS.
Hockett
(1954) distinguished between two approaches to morphology which he
referred to as item and arrangement and item and process. Both are
associated with the American structuralist linguistics codified by
Bloomfield (1933). The two approaches represent two distinct points of
view. Item and arrangement proceed from a picture of each language as a
set of elements and the patterns which these elements occur. The item
and process picture gives no independent status to the items which arise
instead through the construction of the patterns.
Item and
arrangement grew out of the structuralist which deals with word
analysis, and in particular, with techniques for breaking word down into
their morphemes which are items. It deals with the order of structure
while item and process has to do with a morphology approach in which
complex words result from separation of processes on simpler words. It
deals with how rules are employed in analyzing morphemes. Everything
that we can express and analyse under item and arrangement can also be
analysed under item and process.
ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
According
to (Eugene Nidas 1949) Analysis and synthesis are two complementary
approaches to morphology, both are needed by linguist for their
morphological analysis.
He says the analytic approach has to do with
breaking words down and its usually associated with American
structuralist linguists. There were good reasons for these linguists
dealing with languages they had never encountered before and also there
was no written grammar of these languages to guide them. Whichever
languages we are studying we need an analytical method that will be
independent of the structures we are examining. This is true when
dealing with unfamiliar languages.
While the synthesis approach on
the other hand is associated with theory than methodology; it involves
the theory of construction. The analytic principle can also be known as
the principle of morphemic identification.
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