English Morphology!

English Morphology!
I think it is usual that the linguist find it difficult to define the term ‘word’ to all the morphemes. It is easier to define the free morpheme as a word but not very justifiable to say the word for the bound morpheme. For an instance a single letter ‘s’ is a morpheme, as bound morpheme but it is not usual to say the bound morpheme ‘s’ as word. It is because a word has its own definition as a word is the combination of one or more than one letter which gives meaning but bound morpheme ‘s’ cannot give any meaning until it is joined with other words. Thus it will be easier and authentic to teach non native speaker by naming it as the bound morpheme rather than naming it as a word.

Words are formed by various ways such as, adding free morphemes and bound morphemes on the root words. Similarly there are different types of languages: analytic and synthetic. After reading about the classification of the types of languages I realized that my language is in the classification of Agglutinative Language because in my language there add many morphemes into the words.

While talking about function words, determiners are something which might create confusion for non native speaker from my country because we do not use determiner in every context like native English speaker. For example it is weird or sound incorrect if one says, He bought book, instead one should say as, “he bought a book’ or “he bought two books”. There should be a determiner before the object, but in Nepali language, we say it as “he bought book”. Unless one does not ask, that how many books did he buy? Thus it is not usual to say, he bought one book or two books. We don’t need determiner to narrate the sentence. Thus while teaching English Language, back home it creates some time confusion in using a determiner.