ENG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Association Football, Inflectional Phrase, Grammatical Category
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All words are made up of one or more parts that have meaning. I mean, my forehead. words have internal structure discreteness and creativity. What do we know about internal structure? successful; hopeful; careful adorable; unusable impersonalizes; solidified reconsider; reelect - Words are composed of smaller meaningful units un-happ-y, re-present-ation-s, institut-ion-al-ize-d. Morpheme = smallest meaningful element of lang. lexical meaning (re-) grammatical function (-s, -ed) can be combined in systematic ways. Grammatical/function m. lexical/content m. function words (the) content words (happy) inflectional affixes ( s) derivational affixes (un) Free m. content m. (football) function words (of, but) Bound m. bound roots -ceive; -fer deriv. affixes re-; -ly infl. affixes -ed, est infixes un-effing-believable. S, -ed, -ing, -en/-ed, -s, -er, - est the boy is laughing (aspect: progressive) the boys (number: plural) laughs (person: 3rd sg) Grammatical relations between words in the sentence. Function of derivational morphemes organ + ize (n > v) do + able (v > adj)
