LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Affix, Syntactic Category, Part Of Speech

• School: York University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1000
• Professor: Liisa Duncan

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Morphology which are simply elements of sound, words carry meaning. And unlike sentences, which are created as needed and then dicarded, words are permanently stored in a (cid:498)nothing is more important to language than words. Unlike phonemes and syllables, speaker(cid:495)s mental dictionary or lexicon. They are arguably the fundamental building blocks of communication. (cid:499) (cid:523)o(cid:495)grady and archibald (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:883)(cid:524) Knowledge of a word includes information about the word(cid:495)s: Grammatical or syntactic category (e. g. , noun or verb) and how it fits into sentence structure (syntax) internal structure/composition (morphology) A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that carries information about meaning or function. Properties of morphemes: a morpheme is the smallest unit associated with meaning: morphemes cannot be dissected further into smaller meaningful units. car, carrot, care, caress, scare, carpet, cargo, cardigan, caramel. Each of the above words contains the spelling