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ACCUMULATIVE REPORT

Course: English Morphology (2+0)

Major: English Language
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Lecturer:

Binh Duong, August, 2021

 ASSESSMENT

Score Examiner’s Signature 1 Examiner’s Signature 2

In figures In words

Assessment Scheme

Contents Marks Examiner 1 Examiner 2

Task 1: Presentation 3.0

Task 2: Writing

PART 1 1.5

PART 2 Question 1 0.5 Question 1 Question 1

Question 2 0.5 Question 2 Question 2

Question 3 0.5 Question 3 Question 3

Question 4 0.5 Question 4 Question 4

Question 5 1 Question 5 Question 5

Question 6 1 Question 6 Question 6

PART 3 1.5

Total 10

PART 1: Introduction
Today, English is a popular language in the world. Learning English is a necessity and practical for many
English language users. In addition to the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, grammar
and vocabulary are two important factors for the process of language acquisition and use.

Morphology is an important subject in language learning. This course was created to acquaint learners with
different levels of descriptive language approaches by introducing basic morphological concepts such as
word formation and word structure. Morphology focuses on the understanding of language users and the
creation of new lexical systems. The internal arrangement of morphemes both within words and within
phrases and sentences is explained by a single syntactic theory, and morphology provides an account of the
way in which these morphemes are realized phonologically (in sound), whether inside words or
independently arranged in phrases. After completing the course, students should be able to understand the
basic concepts of Morphology.

According to statistics, the number of students who have difficulty in understanding word formation and
word structure is a lot but after taking the morphological course most students can analyze it easily.
Morphology also helps students apply knowledge learned through the course when using English in life
and work. When we have a good grasp of morphology, we will understand correctly, detect ambiguities
and exploit richness related to the English language. In addition, students also have the opportunity to work
independently and effectively in groups, adding many skills such as problem solving and creative thinking.

PART 2: Body (about 1000 words)

1. The concepts:
 Morphology:
The study of word forms and the relationship to other words in the same language.
+ Morphemes
+ Roots and affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
 Morph:

 Morpheme:
• ‘A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a language’.
 [Richards, Platt & Weber, 1987: 183]
• ‘A morpheme is a short segment of language that meets three criteria:
+ It is a word or part of a word that has meaning.
+ It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts without violation of
its meaning or without meaningless remainders.
+ It recurs in different verbal environments with a relatively stable meaning.
[Stageberg, 1965: 85]
 Allomorph:
An allomorph is ‘any of the different forms of a morpheme’.
[Richards, Platt & Weber, 1987: 9]

2. Types of words
3. Types of morphemes
There are two types of morphemes-free morphemes and bound morphemes:
FREE MORPHEMES
• A free morpheme is ‘one that can be uttered alone with meaning’.
[Stageberg, 1965: 87]
• A free morpheme ‘can be used on its own’.
[Richards, Platt & Weber, 1987: 31]
• Free morphemes ‘may stand alone as words in their own right, as well as
enter into the structure of other words’.
[Jackson, 1980: 53]
BOUND MORPHEMES
• A bound morpheme ‘cannot be uttered alone with meaning. It is always
annexed to one or more morphemes to form a word’.
 [Stageberg, 1965: 87]
• A bound morpheme ‘is never used alone but must be used with another
morpheme’.
[Richards, Platt & Weber, 1987: 31]
• Bound morphemes ‘may occur only if they combine with another
morpheme’.
[Jackson, 1980: 53]

MORPHEMES

Free Bound
Morphemes Morphemes

Lexial Functional Derivational Inflectional

Morphemes Morphemes Morphemes Morphemes

+ The lexical morphemes are those morphemes that are large in number and independently
meaningful.
+ Functional morphemes are those morphemes that consist of functional words in a language
such as prepositions, conjunctions determiners, and pronouns.
+ Derivational: Change word meaning or part of speech.
+ Inflectional: Add small bits of grammatical information.

4. The differences between inflectional and derivational morphemes

 Inflectional morphemes is the study of the modification of words to fit into different
grammatical contexts whereas Derivational morphemes is the study of the formation of new
words that differ either in syntactic category or in meaning from their bases. Therefore, this is
the principle difference between inflectional and derivational morphology. Moreover, in usage,
the difference between inflectional and derivational morphology is that the inflectional
morphemes are affixes that merely serve as grammatical markers and indicate some grammatical
information about a word whereas derivational morphemes are affixes that are capable of either
changing the meaning or the grammatical category of the word.
Inflectional morphemes Derivational morphemes
The study of the modification of words to fit The study of the formation of new words that
into different grammatical contexts. differ either in syntactic category or in
meaning from their bases.

Affixes that merely serve as grammatical Affixes that are capable of either changing
markers and indicate some grammatical the meaning or the grammatical category of
information about a word. the word.

Creates new forms of the same word Creates new words

Inflectional morphemes never change the Derivational morphemes often change the
grammatical category (part of speech) of a part of speech of a word.
word.

5. Select 5 words which have at least 4 morphemes.

- Identify types of morphemes in each word.
- Identify the constituent structures of each word.
- Draw the labelled structures of each word.
 - Draw tree diagrams of each word.
6. Word-formation process
- Give the definition of word-formation process
- Identify types of word formation process
- Clarify each type of word formation process
PART 3: Conclusion (about 250 words)
- Summarize the main content
- Show the importance of the course
- Give your own suggestions if possible

REQUIREMENTS!
Your writing must be:
- in the FONT of Times New Roman
- in the SIZE of 13
- in the SPACE of 1.5

Your accumulative report must include:

1. Cover
2. Assessment
3. Writing
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Deadline: 20/08/2021
 INFORMATION REPORT RUBRIC
Subject: English Morphology
Criteria HP AGL GL BGL WS
Contextual Appropriately and Appropriately selects Selects and makes Makes some Selects known
Factors concisely makes subject matter to suit obvious choices of choices of subject matter for
selections of subject purpose of the report. subject matter to suit subject matter the report.
matter to suit purpose of This is presented in a purpose of the report. for the report
the report. written format for This is presented in a through loosely
This is presented in a teacher and peers. written format for connected ideas
written format for teacher and peers. in a written
teacher and peers. format to teacher
and peers.
Textual Locally organizes and Organizes and links Organizes report using Writes using Writing contains
Features links ideas using title, ideas using title, title, classification, some relevant features that are not
classification and classification, description and features of the necessarily
Organizational description. description and summarizing comment. generic structure appropriate/relevant
Framework Concisely organizes summarizing comment. Organizes information of a report. to features of the
(Generic information into Logically organizes into paragraphs Attempts to generic structure of
Structure) paragraphs containing information into containing related organize a report.
related information, to paragraphs containing information, to develop information into
develop a well- related information, to a sequenced report. paragraphs to There is no
sequenced report. develop a well- develop a report. recognizable
sequenced report. structure.
 Textual Effectively interprets Reasonably interprets Constructs a report Constructs texts Constructs texts
Factors and constructs a report and construct reports using most language containing containing
demonstrating an using: features including: simple topic incomplete
Language extensive use of: - Noun groups - Noun groups related sentence structures.
Features - Noun groups - Compound - Compound vocabulary/ Some attempt at
(Cohesion, - Compound sentences sentences grammar. words with little or
Grammar, sentences Punctuation no punctuation.
Vocabulary & - Complex sentences - Complex sentences shows some
Punctuation) - Complex sentences - Precise subject - Precise subject capitals, commas
- Precise subject specific vocabulary specific vocabulary and/or full stops.
specific vocabulary - Action & relating - Action & relating
- Action & relating verbs verbs
verbs - Timeless present - Timeless present
- Timeless present tense tense
tense - Conjunctions- - Conjunctions-
- Conjunctions- temporal/casual temporal/casual
temporal/casual (e.g.: meanwhile, (e.g.: so, then, next,
(e.g.: meanwhile, after a while, lastly, because,
after a while, afterwards, however)
afterwards, previously) - Punctuation
consequently, as a - Punctuation (Capital, full stops,
result of, caused by) (Capital, full stops, commas,
- Punctuation commas, apostrophes-
(Capital, full stops, apostrophes- contractions,
commas, contractions, hyphens)
apostrophes- hyphens)
contractions,
hyphens)
Spelling Accurately spells topic Accurately spells topic Spells frequently used Spells using Very limited
words. words. words accurately using dominant sounds spelling ability.
Effectively spells Attempts to spell sound / visual patterns. within words.
unknown words using unknown words using May have correct
sound/visual and sound/visual and spelling of some
meaning patterns. meaning patterns known words.
Presentation Accurately spells topic Accurately spells topic Spells frequently used Spells using Very limited
words. words. words accurately using dominant sounds spelling ability.
Effectively spells Attempts to spell sound / visual patterns. within words.
unknown words using unknown words using May have correct
sound/visual and sound/visual and spelling of some
meaning patterns. meaning patterns known words.