CLST 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pus, Caudate Nucleus, Head
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*grammatical suffixes will always be given in [square brackets]. We must be able to identify them but we don"t have to choose. If not given this information, the suffix might actually be a termination. *y will be treated as a vowel when dealing with connecting vowels. Multiple roots (how to deal with words with more than one root: coordinate roots: Each root has the same value in the term as another. Test: can you put the word and between them (to coordinate them) Examples: buccocheilitis: inflammation of the cheek and lip, trachelognathic: located in the neck and jaw, subordinate roots. One root has greater importance in the term than the other(s) Test: the roots are not easily joined by and . Often one root is anatomical and one other root. The rule varies if they are coordinate / subordinate roots: coordinate roots: place roots in the order in which they appear (in both the definition and the term itself)
