LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Morphological Derivation, Affix, Word Formation
24 Dec 2018
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Principles of word formation: principle a lexical information determines the kinds of bases to which affixes can attach. S (note: the extra t in babysitter is a convention of english) Syntax: component of grammar that is concerned with the structure of phrases and sentences: hierarchal structure, principles of combining words, types of syntactic knowledge, morphosyntactic categories of words, rules for combining categories into phrases/sentences. How do we combine words to form sentences: the goal of the syntactician is to develop a theory of how words get put together to form sentences. Examples: kai walked to the store, kai walked to the library, kai walked to the forest, *kai walked to the quietly, *kai walked to the in, *kai walked to the carry. Sentences a, b, and c are grammatically correct because the words in each individual sentence are placed in the correct places (subject + verb + object). The bolded/underlined words in sentences a, b, and c are actions.
