LINA01H3 Final: Linguistics Final Review Sheet
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= the study of what people know about the words of their language. = the study of the internal structure of words and the rules or process by. *morpheme: the smallest linguistic unit that carries a meaning or a which words are formed grammatical function: word. Know a word= know its form(pronunciation) and meaning: free vs. bound morphemes. Free morpheme: can stand by itself as an independent word (can be a word; but a word may not be only a free morpheme) Bound morpheme: cannot stand alone, must attach to other morphemes: affix: prefix, suffix, circumfix, infix. Content words (=open class): can create new words (n. v. adj. adv. ) Function words (=closed class): cannot create new words (conjunctions, prepositions, articles, pronouns, auxiliary verbs: root. = free morpheme = content words + function words: stem: any form that an affix attaches to (stem may already be complex) Stem = root + affix: the order of morphemes.
