LING 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Morpheme, Part Of Speech
19 Mar 2018
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Form class words are major words usually nouns, adjectives etc that really relate more to the content of an utterance. Called open because new words enter and current ones change meaning. Structure class words are minor words with grammatical relationships, prepositions, conjunctions etc. closed class. Change very little and are pretty fixed and invariant with other forms, occur in narrow range of positions in sentences and need accompanying content words. Morpheme is the smallest unit of a word. Can be a single word or independant meaningful unit. Ex reindustrialize - re-, industry, -ial, -ize are all morphemes. Free morphemes are units that can stand alone, like industry in above example. Bound morphemes are those units which cannot stand alone ex -ful, -able, -ed, -s aka prefixes and suffixes. Derivational bound morphemes either change class/category a word belongs to or drastically changes semantic meaning. Inflectional bound morphemes do not change class or meaning.
