LING 100 Lecture 5: September 27, 2016 Inflection/Derivational Morphemes and Compounding
5 Oct 2016
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Compounds- is a word formation process that combines two or more lexical categories to form a complex word base ex. spoon feed, verb. Consistent orthography: in danish, compounds are written as one. Inconsistent orthography: in english, they are written however and whoever the heck decided it. Compound- a compound consists of a head and a modifier. Head-provides the core meaning and determines the lexical category. Modifier- serves as a modifier ex. loudmouth, the head is mouth, the modifier is loud. A compound in which the head and/or modifier is itself a compound: dogfood box- dogfood is the modifier, box is the head. But the modifier is it"s own compound, in dog food dog is the modifier and food is the head. The head/modifier of a compound may be a derived word: ex. election date. You can divide it in to elect-ion, and date. They have one primary stress, just like single words.
