LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Part Of Speech, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Affix
10 Sep 2018
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Morpheme: smallest unit of language that carries information about meaning or function, morpheme equals from plus meaning, free and bound morphemes contain meaning, you can combine them. Free and bound morphemes: they contain their own meaning, the meaning of a word comes from its root, a root is usually a free morpheme, a bound morpheme adds or changes meaning to the original root. Affixation and internal structure of words: affixation is the process that attaches an affix to a base, they may be derivational, inflectional or compounding. Derivation: changes the meaning of the base, they combine with bases of particular lexical categories, prefixes do not change lexical category usually, this deals with the principle of compositionality. It can apply more than once to create words with multiple layers. In english the rightmost morpheme determines the category of the entire word. but in a compound you are combining the meaning of two roots and they both contribute meaning.
