LIN 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Part Of Speech, Affix, Adverb
21 Mar 2017
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Open lexical category: category of words we can add to through derivations of words, love(verb) lovely(adverb)- lover(noun) closed lexical category: we, she, they, a, the, this. Inflection: the creation of different grammatical forms of words, ex: adding -s, -ed,-ing, etc. Notes about morphemes: morpheme: smallest linguistic unit that carries meaning or a grammatical function, affixes are morphemes that attach to the stem of a word. More specifically, prefixes attached before the stem and suffixes attached following the stem: affixes that sound alike but have different meanings or functions are homoponous. Morphological processes: affixation: next to prefixes and suffixes, many languages also use infixes (inserted within the root morpheme. ) In tagalog, the infix -um- is used to form the infinitive form of verbs: compounding: process that forms new words not by means of affixes, but by combining two or more independent words. Hierarchical structure of derived words: the input of an affix are the stems with which it can combine.
