LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Affix, Allomorph

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Word: a link between a form and meaning. Words are free they can appear in isolation single words can be a sufficient meaning: they are free can appear anywhere in a sentence inseparable: carrots cant do car-s-ot. Morpheme: smallest unit of meaning cats = 2 morphemes: cat + multiple cooked = cooking + past tense. A book versus an apple ed: bound morpheme. Ed @ end of word = past tense. S @ end of word = plural. Examples: kindnessness kindness = base, kind = base +root, anntimicrobial microb = root + base, microbial = base, anti = derivational, friendliness friend = base+=root, walked walk = base +root. Inflectional morphemes: morphemes that add grammatical meaning to word (cid:862)s(cid:863) at the end = plural. Derivation: the process of creating a new word: hope (adj) +ful = hopeful (noun, kindnesses = derivational, frighten = derivational, pre-screen = derivational. Insincere: stabilize, sincerity, friendliness, antimicrobial, teach + er = teacher, hope +ful = hopeful.