LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Catamaran, Preposition And Postposition, Blackboard
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Native speakers sometimes know the meanings of words they"ve never heard before. Finnish [talossamu: destansakaino] not from the state of being houseless either?". Sometimes part of words share both sound and meaning. [saxn] - share this sound unhappy, unsteady, unlucky, unimpressed. Sign, un- have both common sound and common meaning cat, catalog, category, catamaran. Common sound, no share meaning scud, transfer, forward. Meaning of larger words is predictable from the meaning of their parts. A morpheme is the smallest piece of word that has a meaning. The sound is kaet = its shared as cat, cats. Category has nothing to do with cats, they share the same word but different meaning. The finnish word was composed of several morphemes, e. g talo house", -ssa in", -nsa his", Meanings of roots tend to be lexial. You can have morphemes that go before the root, which is prefix. Anything that go after the root is call suffix.