LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Continuous And Progressive Aspects, Part Of Speech, Preposition And Postposition
6 Mar 2017
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Goal of linguistics: develop a theory that correctly models native speakers" knowledge of their languages. Morphology: studies the structure or forms of words, by decomposing words into smaller units called morphemes. Morphemes: the smallest units of language that can be associated with meaning or grammatical function. examples: un + even: un = not" un + tie: un = reverse the action" un + cle: un has no meaning. Boss = boss, s is not a morpheme in this case. It"s very complicated to define what a word is. Linguistic analysis: describe speakers" knowledge in the most efficient way. possesive comparative superlative past tense progressive aspect vs. vs. vs. vs. amiga muchacha amigas muchachas. 2 rules: un + a = not a un + v = reverse v. If you want it back as it was, you have to __________ it again. (unbling) We don"t memorize every word, instead we know the rules to create diff. forms of the word.
