LIN200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Circumfix, Syntactic Category, Affix
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Lecture 4 morphology-rules of word formation in a language: mental lexicon. Inflection affix: affix that adds grammatical information to an existing word. Derivation affix: affix that attaches to a morpheme or word to derive a new word (different syntactic category or different meanings, word trees know how to do them. Three ordered levels of affixes: derivational affixes that affect phonology. Irregular plural e. g. mice: compound and derivational affixes that don"t affect phonology. Meaning 1: able to unlock [[un lock] able]
