LING 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Affix, Horse Racing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 110
• Professor: Yourie Pankrats

Document Summary

Words are those strings that are set off by spaces. Stress is the relative force used to utter a syllable. It"s possible in english to have primary and secondary stress in the same word: segmentation. The abstract item found in the dictionary is often called a lexeme or lexical entry. A word is an inflected form of a lexeme. All words of the same lexeme form a paradigm (activate, activates, activated, activating). In other words, a paradigm is the complete set of inflected forms of a lexeme (long longer longest) Morphology is a study of the structure of words. The unit of morphology is a morpheme which is the smallest meaningful unit. Speakers of a language can identify the internal structure of the words in their language. Many words are not simple roots, they have internal structure: speaks = speak + s or unbelievable = un + believe + able.