LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moodle, Prince Islands, Part Of Speech

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Charlotte Reinholtz

Document Summary

Analysis: internal composition of words & the morphemes from which they are built. Word formation: formation of words from derivational & inflectional morphemes. Can be pronounced with a pause before 7 after. Belongs to a lexical category (noun, verb, etc. ) or a functional category (e. g. determiner) Example: john (noun) saw (verb) a (determiner) giraffe (noun). Compound noun: 1 item/object written as 2 words (e. g. car tire) Free morphemes: pronounced on their own, with a pause before & after without losing meaning (boy, laugh) Bound morphemes: contained in a larger word, can"t be pronounced on their own, with a pause before & after without losing meaning (e. g. laugh-ed, boy-s) Allomorphs: when the shape of a morpheme varies according to which base it is attached to, variants are called allomorphs. Word structure: contributes differently to meaning & function of words. Usually only one per word (unless it is a compound word) Simple base (teach-er, teach is the base for er )