LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Crowdfunding, Part Of Speech, Affix
8 Feb 2018
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Topics: preliminary issues, what is morphology, the lexicon, morphemes and allomorphs, allomorphy, morphology across languages, types of morphology. Morphology: the study of the structure of words, words, the smallest free-standing units of language, morphemes, the smallest units of language carrying info about meaning or function, examples, cat-s, crowd-fund-ing, un-reach-able. Internal dictionary of words and morphemes: different for every person, varies with age and education, the average adult english speaker knows between 25-60k words. Allomorphy: when morphemes are combined together, allomorphy in affixes, allomorphy in roots, monomorphemic > one morpheme, multimorphemic -> morphologically complex. Types of morphemes: free, can stand as an independent word, bound, must be attached to another morpheme. Affix: contraction, bound root, bound variant of a free morpheme, (cid:498)-ll,(cid:499) (cid:498)-nt(cid:499, carries meaning, lexical category can"t stand on its own, example, (cid:498)kempt, (cid:498)flate,(cid:499) (cid:498)ept(cid:499) 28/09/16: bound versus free morphemes, some languages have mostly free, some have mostly bound.
