LL223 Lecture Notes - Pragmatics, Reduplication, Smog
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Morphology the study of word structure and word formation. Lexicon a speaker s mental dictionary which contains information about the syntactic properties, meaning and phonological representation of a language s words. Word - the smallest freeform found in any language. Free form an element that can occur in isolation and/or whose position with respect to neighbouring elements is not entirely fixed. Morpheme the smallest unit of language that carries information about meaning or function. Simple words a word that consists of a simple morpheme. Complex words a word that consists of two or more morphemes. Free morpheme a morpheme that can be a word by itself. Bound morpheme a morpheme that must be attached to another element (the past tense marker ed) Complex words contain a root morpheme and one or more affixes. Root morphemes belong to a lexical category (v, n, a, av) Affixes (af) do not belong to a lexical category and are always bound morphemes.