PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Function Word, Lexeme
21 Jun 2017
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Morph nov 4th: types of morphemes, functional. 2016-11-04 8:42:00 pm: lexical, distinction goes back to aristotle, leibniz , functional words are not processed the same way as lexical ones, eg. Walk, walks and walked are the same word (lexeme: tend to coalesce with one another, eg. The meaning is assigned directly to them and they contribute to the: -functional morphs have their meaning assigned through a structure. Ambiguity eg. undoable (doable or undo as constituent: exocentric cpds not compositional (eg. funny farm not about farm, endocentric may be compositional, lexical morphs, interpreted compositionally, it is always clear what gets interpreted. Placed after the first word of the final conjunct. Problem: -que is interpreted higher in the structure than. Problem: we don"t know right away what the morpheme means in the way we know it when we encounter a lexical word, the meaning is dependent on a larger structure.
