LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Morpheme, Boysenberry, Word Formation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1000
• Professor: Rosario Gomez

Document Summary

Need to know whether they can stand alone or if they need to be attached to a host morpheme. Free morphemes: can stand on their own: boy, desire, gentle, man. Bound morphemes: never words by themselves but are parts of other words. Prefixes: occur before other morphemes: un-, pre- (premediate, prejudge), bi- (bisexual, bipolar) Ing (running, sleeping), -er (singer, reader), -ist (linguist), -ly (manly, friendly) Languages may differ in what meanings they express: dance (verb) i like to dance, dance (noun) the salsa is a latin dance. Morphemes that are inserted into root morphemes. English has very few infixes: stand (stood), think (thought), bring (brought) Morphemes that are attached to a root or stem morpheme both initially and finally. Root: lexical content morpheme that cannot be analyzed into smaller parts: paint in painter, read in reread, ceive in conceive. Root word may or may not stand alone as a word (paint does, ceive does not)