LING 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Affix, Content Word, Kitchenette
25 Sep 2018
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How many meaningful parts do you see in these words: room: the root, you can add meaningful parts to this word to modify it, s, y and mate: suffixes. Must be able to identify the morphemes and the prefixes and suffixes. In english the /ee/ sounds denotes a property of small (diminutive property) French diminutives: feminine nouns or names are typically made diminutive by adding the ending -ette, diminutive: property of very small, this ending has crossed over into english as well (e. g. kitchenette) Grammatical categories: parts of speech: words must be united between: specific sounds and specific meanings (duality of patterning) Two functions of morphemes: content morphemes, related primarily to meaning, function morphemes, related primarily to the grammar or the relationship of the information in the content. Bound morphemes: morphemes that cannot stand alone, must be used as an affix: derivational morphemes, inflectional morphemes, ex) water needs to be held in a container.
