LIN102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Morphological Derivation, Affix, Nonconcatenative Morphology
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Roots express the core meaning of the word. Ex: true seems to be the main piece of the word untruthfulness, thus it is the. Roots vs. affixes: o root. o root morpheme. : boy in boys, boyish or true in truth, truthful, untrue, untruthful, etc. Affixes attach to the root and modify its meaning. They carry very little of the core o meaning of a word. There are two types of affixes in english; a) prefixes & b) suffixes. Goose/geese has been suggested to be an infix, but it is not. Rn- is a derivational infix in kamhmu, a language spoken in south east asia, Not anything that goes in between roots that is an infix. An infix breaks up the root of the word o: cali-f(ing)-ornia is an infix (because it"s the process of infixation, california is one morpheme. If something is a morpheme, then it will care about the morpheme o.
