Morphological Analysis: Words, Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns

Morphological Analysis

The aim of morphological analysis is to describe the way words are composed and their meaning. For example: EVWSI-lexeme / (to-female gender / s-number plural morphemes).

Composition is the process of obtaining a new word by joining two or more words.

Nouns

• Common: Poppy
• Proper: Javier
• Concrete: Dog
• Abstract: Intelligence
• Collective: Herd (sheep)
• Individual: Window
• Countable: Ball
• Uncountable: Air

Articles

Before a noun, an article functions as a determinant, and when attached to an adjective, it functions as a noun (e.g., "I like the Great").

Adjectives

The category adjective is a word that determines the noun it accompanies or expresses some of its properties or qualities.

Determinative Adjectives

These accompany the noun and form an expression that points to realities: my horse, these bags.

Qualifying Adjectives

These bring a quality to the noun: powerful computer.

Degrees of Qualifying Adjectives

• Superiority: More... than
• Inferiority: Less... than
• Equality: Equal... to

Pronouns

Pronouns are equivalent to a noun (e.g., "The house is mine," instead of "The house is of me").

• Personal: I, me, you, he, she, it, we, us, they, them
• Possessive: Mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs
• Demonstrative: This, that, these, those
• Indefinite Quantifiers: One, a, very, little, about, either, some
• Numeral Quantifiers: One, two, three...
• Relative: That, which, who, whom
• Interrogative and Exclamatory: Which, what, who, whom

Determinative Adjectives

These accompany the noun (e.g., my horse).

• Possessive: My, your, his, her, its, our, their
• Demonstrative: This, that, these, those
• Indefinite Quantifiers: A, some, much, no, one, quite, some
• Numerals: One, two, three...
• Relative: Which, as
• Interrogative and Exclamatory: Which, as, many, as

Personal Pronouns

• Atonic: You, it, me, what, the, us, os
• Tonic: I, your, the, us, you

Ordinal and Cardinal Numbers

• Ordinal: First, second, third...
• Cardinal: One, two, three, four...

Verb Conjugation: Walk

Indicative

• Present: Walk
• Future: Will walk
• Imperfect: Walked
• Preterite: Walked
• Conditional: Would walk
• Present Perfect: Have walked
• Future Perfect: Will have walked
• Pluperfect: Had walked
• Preterite Perfect: Had walked
• Conditional Perfect: Would have walked

Subjunctive

• Present: Walk
• Imperfect: Walk
• Future: Walk
• Present Perfect: Have walked
• Future Perfect: Will have walked
• Pluperfect: Had walked

Imperative

Walk, walk...

Gerund

Walking

Past Participle

Walked