LING 1100 Lecture 10: LING1001Morphological types of languages.docx
8 Nov 2014
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Languages can be classified according to the way in which they use or don"t use morphological processes: analytic, purely analytic, sequences of free morphemes, each word is a single morpheme with its meaning and function intact, isolating language, no use of affixes to compose words, semantic and grammatical concepts are expressed with separate words. Steps in finding morphemes: semantic distinctiveness, phonemic form pronunciation, systematic lists, exhaustively, select possible and likely candidates that might have morphological expression (in terms of meaning, depend on translation equivalent (gloss, select one candidate from (1) and look for other items in the list that have the same meaning element, these elements should have something in common with respect to, list the items that you have identified in (2) in categories (e. g. , meaning, function, and/or position in the word, once you have the list(s) (3), go through the data and make sure all parts b. of all words are accounted for.
