LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pro-Form, Cleft Sentence, Part Of Speech
8 Mar 2017
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The smallest unit of speech that can stand alone as a meaningful utterance. Morpheme: the smallest unit of language that has meaning or serves a grammatical function. Free morpheme: can stand on its own: Bound morpheme: must combine with other morphemes. Root: single indivisible morpheme, the core element of meaning. Affixes: are morphemes that combine with roots. Don"t change core meaning or lexical category. Are required by rules of sentence structure. The part of speech of a word can be determined by considering what positions the word can occupy in a sentence: May be inserted in several places in the same sentence. Affixes have restrictions on the kind of stem they can attach to. Ex) /-able/ attaches to verbs and creates adjectives. When more than one affix attaches to a word, they join one at a time in a specific order. Some complex words can have more than one meaning. Some complex words that can have more than one interpretation.
