LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Part Of Speech, Hit 105, Affix
12 Feb 2019
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What is a morpheme: the smallest unit of language that carries information about meaning or function, morpheme = form + meaning. Affixation & internal structure of words: affixation is the processes that attaches an affix to a base, affixes may be, derivational, compounding. English: ex) claim (v) claim-ant (n, derivational prefixes typically cause a meaning change to the base, but usually do not change the lexical category of the base (in english, ex) competent (a) incompet-ent (a) In english, the rightmost morpheme determines the category of the entire word: the morpheme that determines the category of the word is called a head. Types of compounds: the head determines the meaning in endocentric compounds. In exocentric compounds the meaning of the compound does not follow from the meaning of the parts: example. Facebook: an affixation process that adds grammatical information to the meaning of the base.
