LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Odisha, Catamaran, Affix
15 Mar 2016
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Morphology: naive speakers someimes know the meanings of words they"ve never heard before. Finnish [talossamu:destansaka:nko] not from the state of being houseless either?". Sora (south orissa, india): [popounkountam] someone will stab you with a knife in your belly". [ en@dzdzadarsi@m] i will not receive cooked rice from your hands". The smaller parts have meaning, and someimes you can tell what the word means based on the sound. Finnish has a lot: someimes parts of words share both sound and meaning sign, signing, signage, signer, assign unhappy, unsteady, unlucky, unimpressed sign, un- have both a common sound and a common meaning cat, catalog, category, catamaran. Common sound, no shared meaning send, transfer, forward, missive, mail, post. Shared meaning, no common sound: meaning of larger words is (under some condiions) predictable from the meaning of their parts. Compare many words with the same morpheme and see if they have similar meaning. sign, un- are morphemes cat- in category is not.
