LINA01H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 Notes

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Morpheme: the smallest unit in a language that carries a meaning or grammatical function. A free morpheme is one which cans stand by itself as an independent word: happy, sing, hope. A bound morpheme is one which cannot stand alone as an independent word; it must be attached to another morpheme: un-, -er, -s, -less, bound morphemes are written with a hyphen to indicate their bound status. Simple words: some words consist if a single morpheme. Complex words: words may contain two or more morphemes. Complex words consist of a root morpheme plus one or more affixes: compounds are exceptions to this statement. Affix: a morpheme which must be attached to a root (more accurately, a base": do not belong to a lexical category, all are bound morphemes. The internal structure of a word can be represented using a tree diagram www. notesolution. com. Base: is the form to which an affix is added.

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