TO OUR CLASS K21 SƯ PHẠM TIẾNG ANH


Group 6 : Trần Mỹ Phụng &
Nguyễn Thị Lan Phương


Unit three : IMMEDIATE CONSTATITUENTS IN MORPHOLOGY
1. DEFINITION :
IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENTS are any of the two meaningful parts forming a larger linguistic unit’ [Arnold, 1986: 83]. Abbreviated as IC .
Ex: ungentlemanly
+ un- +adjective base un- |gentlemanly
+ In adjective base, there is noun base + -ly
 gentleman  -ly
+ In noun base, there are compound nouns is adjective + noun  gentle | man
un- | gentle | man | -ly


1. DEFINITION :

Doing word diagrams, like the one right above, to show layers of structure, we make successive divisions into two parts, each of which is called AN IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT, abbreviated IC. The process is continued until all the component morphemes of a word, the morphemes of which the word is composed, have been isolated.


2. SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON IC DIVISION :


There are three recommendations on IC division :
If a word ends in an inflectional suffix, the first cut is between this suffix and the rest of the word.
Ex: pre– + conceiv(e)–ed
mal– + formation–s


2. SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON IC DIVISION:

b . One of the IC‘s should be, if possible, a free form. A free form is one that can be uttered alone with meaning: egg, doing, enlarge, supportable, etc. Here are examples of wrong and right first cuts:

Wrong: en– large + –ment Right: en– + large –ment
in– + depend –ent in– depend + –ent
un– + law –ful un– law + –ful


2. SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON IC DIVISION:

c. The meanings of the IC’s should be related to the meaning of the word.
Ex : It would be wrong to cut restrain like this:
rest rain

because neither rest nor rain has a semantic connection with restrain. Nor would a division of starchy as:
star chy

be right because this would give an unrelated morpheme {star} and a meaningless fragment chy. The two examples are properly cut in this way:
re– strain starch –y