LING 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infix, Syntactic Category, Frenemy
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Verb + able -> adj (means able to be verb-ed: laughable, believable, adjustable. Unlockable: get ambiguity because un- can attach to 2 diff kinds of roots, v and adj. Allows us to judge well-formed vs impossible words. In a well formed word tree, all sub trees should be possible words. We understand meaning of novel complex words bc we know: meanings of the individual morphemes, rules for building structures out of these morphemes, rules allow us to create new words. Children often create new words by attaching bound morphemes to words to which they do not attach in the adult language. Dad, i"ll (cid:271)e the liste(cid:374)er a(cid:374)d you (cid:271)e the storier. Tells us children acquiring rules and not just imitating adult language. Er, -able, etc. more productive rules. morphemes used more on other words. Have meaning and they change the meaning of the root. May change the grammatical category (part of speech) of the root.