LING 1200 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Morpheme, Verb, Noun
LING 1200
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Morphology (chapter 4)
Thursday, September 15, 2016
10:00 AM
• How do we create new words?
o What is involved in the making of new words?
The grammatical process: Facebook as a word
• Radio: "are you facestalking your ex?"
• Me: crap, now y'all did it, it's an affix!
o Face: affix (added to stalking)
o This is an example of grammaticization
• We are able to use these new terms in our everyday language
o Our language is evolving
Ex) whaddathynk
• What do you think?
o Its hard for new English speakers to identify the segments of this fused
sentence
o Prefix: before the root
o Suffix: after the root
• Establish: root
• Dis: morpheme
o Not a word
o Cannot stand alone
• Ment:
o Added to the end of the root
*Be able to identify these segments
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*Identify b/w prefix and suffix (ex. Anti)
How many meaningful parts do you see in these words?
• Room: the root
o You can add meaningful parts to this word to modify it
• S, y and mate: suffixes
Knowing a word means you must know both its sound string and its meaning
• Morphology: the study of the structure of words and how their parts are combined
o A word may have 1, 2,3 morphemes etc.
• The smallest meaningful words
• **A morpheme is not always a stand alone word
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Document Summary
How many meaningful parts do you see in these words: room: the root, you can add meaningful parts to this word to modify it, s, y and mate: suffixes. Must be able to identify the morphemes and the prefixes and suffixes. In english the /ee/ sounds denotes a property of small (diminutive property) French diminutives: feminine nouns or names are typically made diminutive by adding the ending -ette, diminutive: property of very small, this ending has crossed over into english as well (e. g. kitchenette) Grammatical categories: parts of speech: words must be united between: specific sounds and specific meanings (duality of patterning) Two functions of morphemes: content morphemes, related primarily to meaning, function morphemes, related primarily to the grammar or the relationship of the information in the content. Bound morphemes: morphemes that cannot stand alone, must be used as an affix: derivational morphemes, inflectional morphemes, ex) water needs to be held in a container.