LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Morpheme, Preposition And Postposition, Complementizer
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10th week: review in sections (can attend as many sections as you want) December 15 - drop in review, 10am - 5pm in rolfe 3126. Open book, open notes, nothing electronic for the exam, bring student id, pencils and erasers. We can utter or understand an infinite number of new sentences. A natural language grammar must minimally consist of: Words are not always atoms, but they can be made of smaller units = morphemes. Morphemes combine in a regular, rule-governed fashion to form infinitely many words. The speaker needs to know what kind of morpheme each one is (free e. g. nation vs. bound e. g. The speaker needs to know what kind of morpheme each one is (free e. g. nation vs. bound e. g. affix) The speaker needs to know what kind of thing the affix can attach to. The speaker needs to know what kind of thing results from combining an affix with a complement.
