Summary “CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION”

Morphology is a Greek and make up of Morph is “shape/form”, and –ology is “the study of something”. Morphemes are meaningful units of sounds. Moreover, morphemes are the smallest unit linguistic of meanings or expressions. Morpheme consists of two. First, free morpheme and bound morpheme.  Free morpheme can stand alone as word of language, for example: kind, good, happy etc. whereas Bound morpheme cannot stand alone and must be attached with another morpheme, for example: kind+ness (ness is a bound morpheme). The point in bound morpheme is we should add the affixes of the root. Why does morphology born? Because morphology is the study of internal structure of word and also to make patterns or rules. The goal of morphological research, such as: 1. Elegant description. It means the main criterion for elegance is generality. 2. Cognitively realistic description. It means we don’t talk about general and also its same pattern (the exact pattern). 3. System external explanation. Most facts about linguistic pattern are historical accidents and cannot be explain. 4. A restrictive architecture for description. It means linguists try to contract grammatical theory.

Source: Understanding Morphology Ebook