LING 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Part Of Speech, Affix
21 May 2013
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Hiss: onomatopoeic: sounds of the words supposedly imitate the sounds of nature (ex. Eg: nouns, verbs: closed class words: a category that rarely has new words added to it. Preposition, conjunctions: morpheme: smallest unit of language that carries info about a meaning. Free morphemes: can stand on their own (eg. boy, desire, woman) Bound morphemes: must attach to other morphemes (eg. ly, non-: affix: bound morpheme that attach to stem or root; meaning is not as clear as the root. Can combine with demonstratives (these, this, that), articles (a, the), and possessive pronouns (my, your, his) Can generally take the plural suffix s: verbs: Can take suffix s in the present tense; this is the 3rd person singular form. Can take the suffix ing (present, progressive) Most have special form in past tense: adjectives: Can be modifies by intensifiers (very, so, quite, rather) Usually take the suffices er and est. All adjectives occur with comparative words less and least: adverbs:
