LING 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Morpheme, Affix, Concatenation

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Morphology: study of internal structure of words. Morphemes: smallest unit of meaningful constituent of words\ Example: lindsay received a newly refurbished cellphone in the mail. Lindsay receive-d a new-ly re-furbish-ed cell-phone in the mail. Lindsay receive-past a new-adv re-furbish-past cell-phone in the mail. Polymorphemic: more than one morpheme; morphologically complex. Alternative evidence: if something can stand alone without an afffix, that is evidence that it is a morpheme. Bound morpheme: morpheme that only occurs as part of a polymorphemic word. Concatenation: link together in a change or series. Bound morphemes: un-, li-, -ness, bi-, -able, -ness. Free morphemes: friend, cycle, excite, nothing, massachussets. Base: base of a morphological process; element onto which a morphological process occurs. Root: monomorphemic base; contains basic meaning of the word. Affix: bound morpheme that attaches to a base to form a complex word. Bases: night, owl, play, afford, decent, religion, indolent, bubble, during, search, hope, do.

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