LIN204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Transitive Verb, Intransitive Verb, Suppletion
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Morphology the study of the structure of words, the units of meaning that are used to construct them and the rules we apply to combine them. Cats = cat and s -> 2 morpheme. Morphemes smallest units of meaning in a language. Monomorphemic (cannot break down into smaller meaningful parts): Morphemes (can break down into smaller meaningful parts): Some morphemes can stand on their own as words in a sentence (free morphemes), while others must atach to a base. (adj) kind/kindly, generous/generously, happy/happily x (noun) table/*tably, cloth/*clothly, car/*carly x (verb) run/*runly, eat/*eatly, read/*readly. *{-ly} combines with an adjecive base to make an adverb. Many aixes indicate the grammaical category of the word. Groony adj; stronker noun; wigrifying verb; klummitzes noun; briggily adv. {un-} ataches to adjecives; it means not ; (unkind) {believe} is a verb; it means to accept as true . {-able} creates adjecives from verbs; it means capable of ; (enjoyable)
