LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Synthetic Language, Polysynthetic Language, Fusional Language
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Principal types of word formation processes in language are: The process in which words are formed by combining two or more stems. The parts of a compound can consist of root morphemes, derived words or other compounds in nearly any combination. (grand)(mother) (over)(take) (fire)(fighter) (out)(board) (motor)(craft) Creates new words by the addition of a derivational affixation. Affixes can be further distinguished on the basis of its meaning/function and productivity (inflectional vs derivational) * creates new words by changing its category/ its basic meaning. * not highly productive; occurring only with a restricted subset of the words of a given class. * indicates grammatical distinctions within a word class. * highly productive, occurring within all or most given word classes. *the number of inflectional categories vary from language to language* The internal structure of words can be represented by means of a word tree diagram that shows the order in which morphemes are attached.
