LING 1001 Lecture 2: LING1001 Lecture 2

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1001
• Professor: Masako Hirotani

Document Summary

Today: rules about some of the smallest units in language. Words? lime: (cid:858)s(cid:373)all, gree(cid:374), (cid:272)itrus fruit(cid:859) li(cid:373)es: (cid:858)multiple s(cid:373)all, gree(cid:374) citrus fruit(cid:859) S has (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is it a word though: morpheme: smallest meaningful unit in language (stored in your head, (cid:862)s(cid:373)allest(cid:863) = (cid:862)(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)e (cid:271)roke(cid:374) dow(cid:374) i(cid:374)to s(cid:373)aller parts(cid:863) S is a morpheme lime is also a morpheme. Kinds of affixes: prefix: attaches to the beginning of root, affix: attaches to the end of root. What do you know when you know a morpheme: where it goes: syntax, x s. Important: indicate what kind of affix with hyphens (e. g. , -s, not s: what it means: semantics. Meaning of -s: (cid:862) (cid:373)ore tha(cid:374) o(cid:374)e x(cid:862) The meaning of an affix is dependent on what it attaches to: how it(cid:859)s pronounced: phonology. Use these three pieces of information to figure out what morphemes there are in a language.