LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Syntactic Category, Word Formation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Jaime Dube

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Morphology: the study of how we analyze and create words, analyze: internal composition morphemes, create: word formation derivation. Words: words are autonomous (free) units, appear in isolation, can occupy different positions in the sentence, have a syntactic category (n, v, a, p, det. , etc. ) *s-bean: example: i like beans, beans taste like dirt. Morphemes: words: composed of morphemes (1 or more, morphemes: minimal meaningful units, used to make words, cannot be decomposed into smaller meaningful parts. Allomorphs: when the shape of a morpheme varies according to which base it is attached to, the variants are called allomorphs. [(e)n: phonetic symbols upside down letters or other symbols to define phonetics. Er affix: ablaut: changing vowels in a word to change tense (eg. Derivation: derivation, produces words, changes the meaning, changes the category, complex: there can be more than one layer of affixation (more than one affix, more than one change of category, eg.