LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Polyethylene Terephthalate, Smog, Morpheme
25 Jan 2015
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Remember, inflections always attach last but the last thing may not be an inflection. The story so far: most of the discussion of morphology that we have covered dealt with affixation, for problems in other languages, we talked about how to split words into their components. Reduplication: this is a type of affixation in which the affix is just a repetition of some part (possibly all) of the base, ex: indonesian: orang man" orang orang men". English reduplication: salad salad vs. fruit salad. In english we use full reduplication to show that we intend a prototypical meaning of a word: ex: yeah, but do you like like him, this is some fancy-shmancy derivation, not inflection. Clipping: shortening a polysyllabic word by deleting whole syllables. In names, this is done to mark a lack of formality: ex: liz, phil, will, ed (the royal family)
