LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Circumfix, Part Of Speech, Participle
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The study of word structure and word formation. *complex words may be broken down to their simplest form (example: singer-sing, selections- Word formation: mor phol o gy m r f l j / noun, the study of the forms of things, in particular, et y mol o gy. 1. the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. * the origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning. A unit word formation that cannot be analyzed into smaller parts. * free morpheme: morphemes that occur in isolation. * bound morpheme: morphemes that cannot occur by itself. * root: a lexical morpheme that constitutes the principal element of meaning in a word (free. * affix: words that must be attached to root words to create nouns. The unit to which an affix attaches (like words, stems can be morphologically simple or complex)
