DERIVATIONAL AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHEME

IN KOREAN LANGUAGEBY:

WINA VIQA SARI147052011

INTRODUCTION Morphology is the study of the

structure and form of words in language, including inflection, derivation and the formation of compounds.

Words are the units that are combined to form sentences in a language.

Morpheme is the smallest meaningful part of a word.

INTRODUCTIONTypes of Morphemes: Free Morphemes

is a morpheme that by itself can function as a word in a language.

Examples : Boy, girl, chair. Bound Morphemesis a morpheme that cannot stand by itself to form

a word; it must be joined to other morphemes. It is bound because although it has meaning, it cannot stand alone.

Examples: -ish, -ness, -ly, etc.Boyish = boy + ish

DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES

Derivational morpheme is the morpheme which is use to form a new word on the basis of an existing word, usually by using affix. This derivational process usually changes the category of the words.

DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMEIn korean there are several affix

that can change the words category, such as:

- 하다 (noun verb) 노래 (lagu) + 하다 = 노래 하다 (to sing)

- 관 (noun noun) 영화 (movie) + 관 = 영화관 (theatre) 도서 (book) + 관 = 도서관 (library)

DERIVATIONAL MORPHEME - 실 (noun noun)

교 (school) + 실 = 교실 (class room)화장 (make up) + 실 = 화장실 (restroom/ toilet)

- 사 (nounnoun)간호 (treatment) + 사 = 간호사 (nurse)요리 (dish) + 사 = 요리사 (chef)

INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMEAn inflectional morpheme is used to create a variant form of a word in order to signal grammatical information.

In Korean there are several inflectional morpheme exist, such as:

- 하다 (shows verb in present tense) - 었다 (shows verb in past tense) - 을거다 (shows verb in future tense) - 고 싶 다 (shows desire or willing to do

something)

INFLECTIONAL MORPHEME - 님 (honorifics noun) - 는 (token for subject) - 를 (token for object) - 에 (token for place) - 에러 (token for position or direction)

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