LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Unified Modeling Language, Affix
17 Oct 2016
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Morphology- a system of categories and rules involved in word formation and interpretation. Lexicon- a speaker"s mental dictionary, which contains information about the syntactic properties, meaning and phonological representation of a language"s words. Word- the smallest free form found in a language. Free form- an element that does not have to occur in a fixed position with respect to neighboring elements and may even be able to appear in isolation: e. g. computer, think, i, it, through. Morpheme- the smallest unit of a language that carries information about meaning or function: simple word- a word consisting of a single morpheme, which cannot be divided into smaller parts. E. g. feel 1 morpheme: complex word- a word consisting of two or more morphemes. Improve - ment - s 3 morphemes. Free morpheme- a morpheme that can be a word by itself: e. g. study, book, yes, fly. Bound morpheme- a morpheme that must be attached to another element: e. g.
