LIN102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Part Of Speech, Affix, Phonetic Transcription
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Marking inflection major ways of marking inflection; Internal change; substituting one non-morphemic segment for another to mark a. How is inflection typically marked? o o o grammatical contrast (sing/sang, drive/drove, goose/geese) o to indicate a grammatical contrast (go/went, am;is;are/was;were) Suppletion: replacing a morpheme, with an entirely different morpheme in order. Use an example like unluckiness. o o o o o o. Luck and -y can be put together to make lucky. There are 4 morphemes in the word; 1)un 2)luck 3)y 4)ness. When you make a word, you take morphemes and put them together. Meaning upon meaning; there"s a layered structure to the word. To put it together, you start with your root and you keep adding on to it. You can attach "-un" to an adj. (ie: lucky) Adding ness first would change its lexical category (to a noun) If we don"t attach "un" to nouns, we attach it to verbs o.
