LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Endocentric And Exocentric, Suppletion, Redneck
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Lecture 4 morphology ii: anything that is not written on the lecture slides will be bolded and italicized in these notes, prof started the class with slide 28 from previous lecture slides. More about compounds: compounds can have a wide range of meanings, sometimes, their meaning is related to the meaning of their head, such compounds are called endocentric. If you can say type of , it"s endocentric. Ex. dog food is a type of food. Ex. cave man is a type of man. Ex. sky-blue is a type of blue. Ex. redhead is not a type of head; rather, it is a person with red hair. Ex. redneck is a person and not a type of neck. Other examples: paperback (used in exam last year), ladyfinger, greenhand, butterfingers (was on exam), scarecrow (was on exam), laptop. Inflection: slides 30-32 was previously talked about in last lecture. Suffixation (as in the case of english) -> the 8 inflections.
