LIN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cranberry Morpheme, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Boysenberry

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 1300
• Professor: Kathleen Brannen

Document Summary

Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words the identification of the parts of words: their constituents. E. g. write : what can we add to this word to make other words? e. g. er writer . Morpheme: the smallest lexical element that has meaning. Write = root; -er = suffix; re- =prefix. 1. root, 2. suffix, 3. prefix, 4. infix together, prefixes, suffixes, infixes = affixes. Root morpheme = the base; the morpheme that contributes the basic meaning (semantic content); affixes can attach to the root. Stem = one or more morphemes to which an affix is added. The stem always includes the root, but may also include one or more affixes the stem of gracious is the root grace : grace+ious the stem of graciousness is gracious : gracious +ness. Suffix = an affix that attaches to the end of a stem, Prefix = an affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem,