ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Verb Phrase, Noun Phrase, Bound And Unbound Morphemes
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Morpholog(cid:455): stud(cid:455) of (cid:449)ords a(cid:374)d parts of (cid:449)ords a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) the(cid:455)(cid:859)re for(cid:373)ed. Has to do with the smallest unit of meaning. Two types of units: free morphemes. Words that have meaning by themselves: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, bound morphemes. Fragments of words , linguistic utterances with no meaning with themselves u(cid:374)less the(cid:455)(cid:859)re attached to a free (cid:373)orphe(cid:373)e: derivational morphemes alter the meaning of words. Yester /day /john/ran/ a/ way/ with/the/bake/ r/(cid:858)s/young/er/daughter (14: allomorphs. Process of new word formation: compounding (sleepover, makeup, etc. , acronym formation (rcmp, ppp) November 14th 2016: foreign word borrowing (prestige words, blending. Merging parts of 2 words and making into one brunch (breakfast and lunch: clipping. Cut words and come up with new words (gas from gasoline, exam from examination: derivation. Television televised (becomes a verb: back-formation. Crap named after thomas crap who invented toilet: trade names. Words like klee(cid:374)e(cid:454), vick(cid:859)s, jeep, aspiri(cid:374), google, etc. Bra(cid:374)d (cid:374)a(cid:373)es that(cid:859)re gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) to the product.
