LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Affix, Obstruent, Endocentric And Exocentric
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Lecture 6 chapter 4 morphology (part i) Morphology study of words and word structure: the study of the structure of words and the component of grammar that includes the rules of word formation. Morpheme smallest meaningful unit in language that can"t be broken down (ex. unhappy un", happy") Words made up of one morpheme are simple words (hi, girl, desire) complex words words that have more than one morpheme (girly 2, desirability 3, antidisestablishmentarianism 7) allomorphs variants of morphemes (ex. S, dogs [z], cats [s], watches [ z]) . Typology of morphemes: free morphemes morphemes that can constitute words by themselves (boy, free, woman, bound morphemes morphemes that can"t be words by themselves, must attach to another morpheme/word (-ish, -s, -able, pre-) Complex words consist of root morpheme and affix(es: roots (no bound roots, root lexical category morpheme that can"t be analyzed into smaller parts.
