LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Sonorant, Morpheme, Phoneme
25 Jan 2015
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In english, there are some roots that cannot be used without affixes. These are called (not surprisingly) bound roots. (but people trying to look clever will play with this: similarly, in colloquial speech, some affixes are used without a root. Representing word structure: exactly as we were doing with compounds, we use a tree structure to represent the structure inside words. A note on trees: there are two ways to draw tree structures. The textbook uses a style that emphasizes linear order, and keeps everything on one plane (easier to read). The slides will use a style that places emphasis on hierarchy, but loses the flat bottom of the tree (easier to see combinations). You may use either, so long as you have the right connections in the tree. Question: so we know that the root of blackened is black.
