LIN200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Time In Australia, Voiceless Alveolar Fricative, Adverb
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O bound roots morphemes are meaningful but can"t stand alone. Exception to lexical morphemes are free morphemes. "cran-berry" "twi-light: lexical morphemes refer to objects, actions, attributes. Open class can add new lexical morphemes to a language. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs are lexical and open: functional morphemes serve grammatical purpose, closed class. Conjuctions (and, or, but), pronouns (she, i, our), prepositions (to, at, on) are functional and closed. Derivational morphemes changes the category of the root. Verbs indicate time (tense), possibility (mood), internal structure of an event (aspect) Nouns indicate singular or plural, masculine or feminine, grammatical person. Adjectives indicate degree to which adjectives hold: word formation ways languages make new words, morphological structure complex words have hierarchical internal structure, may lead to different meaning. Hierarchical order, best evidence from word with both prefixes and suffixes ex. can"t attach un- to nouns.
