ENGL 2105 Lecture Notes - Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Affix, Counterintuitive

• School: Carleton University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2105
• Professor: Robin Norris

Document Summary

Some people who use own lang are ruining the lang. everyone should speak like i do. American trends catch on in other countries, whereas british less likely to be heard (new words/word of the year. Moral of the story: lexicon is being added to each year. Not just individual words, but lexemes or lexicon. Shut down/shut up=lexime, but shut, shutting, etc are not a lexime. True no matter how many words it contains. Top of page=idoms, but all based on the word hand. Can"t figure out what it means by breaking it apart. To perform social function like saying goodbye: see you later. Focus more on written than spoken so can cite evidence of how words are used. We all have an active vocab: use on regular basis. Lexical continuity=words stick around. huge contributor to lang today. Many were old english words that have been here 1000 years. 83% of 1000 most used words come from olde.