LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linguistic Universal, Affix, Syntactic Category
20 Mar 2018
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Define morphology and what it means to know the words of a language; Analyze lexical morphological processes involved in vocabulary building common to all languages; and. Morphology: the branch of linguistics that studies words, how they are built and how th with other words. Function words: do not have a clear lexical meaning, have grammatical function in lang consist of conjunctions, prepositions, determiners, and pronouns w they interact language and. Can be a single word that cannot be broken down further into smaller elements. Prefixes: when we add morphemes to the beginning of a root. Suffixes: when we add elements to the end of words. Free morpheme: when a morpheme can stand on its own and cannot be broken down. Bound morpheme: when a morphemes don"t have meaning on their own but need to attac other roots. Circumfixes: morphemes attached to the beginning and to the end of the root.
