Morphological structure of words Plan What is morphology.? 2

Language Basic Form Suppletive form

Russian good/horosho better/lutshe

Russian bad/ploho worse/hurze

German good/gut better/besser

German have/haben had/hatte

French have/avoir had/eu

German is/ ist are/sind

Reduplication

Reduplication is a morphological process which marks a grammatical or semantic contrast by repeating all or a part of the base to which it applies. Repetition of the whole base is called a full reduplication, and repetition of a part of the base is called partial reduplication.

Some Examples of Partial Reduplication

Language Base Reduplicated form

English ding ding-dong

Chat chit-chat

Daily chit-chat

Cross dilly-dally

Dangle criss-cross

Flam dingle-daungle

Knack flim-flam

Scrap knick-knack

Waddle scrip-scrap

Will widdle-waddle

Wriggle willy-nilly

Wriggle-wraggle