LING 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Syntactic Category, Part Of Speech, Lighthouse Keeper
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We also understand new formed sentences even though we never heard them before. Study of the internal structure of words and the rules for combining parts of words (building blocks) to make morphologically complex words: parts that makes up a word. Combining elements -> new words: member + ship = membership; light + house + keeper = lighthouse keeper. Decomposing words -> parts: sooner = soon + er; decompose = de + compose. Allows us to: understand words never heard before, judge possible from impossible words, recognize when a word is ambiguous, create new words. Types of mr: compounding i. e. googleganger, affixation, prefixation, suffixation, etc, reduplication, other. Compounds formed by combining 2 or more independent word. Examples: baby (n) + sit (v) = babysit (v, tooth (n) + brush (n) = toothbrush (n, black (adj) + board (n) = blackboard (n) Inflectional endings determined by the head (plural or past tense) Head last, stress (on tone) first (i. e. blackboard, bluebird)
