LING 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Circumfix, Tz'Utujil People, Genitive Case
7 Jul 2018
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Goals: give a thorough introduction to morpheme-based morphology and a brief introduction to the concept of a lexeme. After working through this lecture and associated reading, the student should be able to examine polymorphemic words in. English, break them down into constituent morphemes, and fit them into the given classification system (bound/free, stem/affix, etc. Keywords: morpheme, morphological segmentation, morphological concatenation, root, stem, affix, lexeme, paradigm, grammatical function. Reading: um chapter sections 2. 0 (preamble), 2. 1, and 2. 2. Definitions: morpheme: minimal unit of a word with an independent meaning (approximately) polymorphemic (=morphologically complex): more than one morpheme, monomorphemic: only one morpheme. Task: find all the morphemes in the words of the following sentence: jacob lives in the newly established townhouses on fourth ave. Task: try to articulate the meanings of the following morphemes: beach, run, faint, -s (3rd person), -t/d (past tense)
