LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Video Blog, Endocentric And Exocentric, Redneck
1 Jun 2016
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Compounds: word formation process that combines 2+ lexical categories to form a complex word stem. E. g. blue (adj) + bird (noun) = blue bird (noun) Right-headed: right-most word/root provides category & core meaning to the compound. Properties of compounds: stressed like a single word (one primary stress) Past tense suffix: attaches to the entire compound verb. Look at slide: endo- & exocentric compounds. Category & core meaning is determined by the head. Category & core meaning is not determined by head. Fly species not a person with a red neck not a bottle which is blue. Internal change: process that substitutes one segment for another. Suppletion: process that replaces an entire stem with another form. Reduplication: process that repeats part or all of the stem. Verb noun (a long) run (a hot) drink (a pleasant) drive. Adjective verb dirty (a shirt) empty (a box) right (a wrong)
