LING 1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 21 pages long!)
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Some compound words demonstrate that human linguistic knowledge is creative. We understand these words even though we have never heard them before. The study of the internal structure of words and the rules for combining parts of words (building blocks) to make morphologically complex words. We know how to combine elements to build new words. We know how to decompose words into their parts. Our knowledge or morphological rules allows us to: Ou knowledge of morphology allows us to create new words. Compounds are formed by combining two or more independent words. Compounds can be represented by word trees that show the internal structure of the complex word. Label grammatical categories of the parts and of the whole compound. Word trees illustrate how speakers mentally represent complex words. Meaning and grammar wise- what the category will be. Complex words inherit grammatical properties from their head. Plural, past test, what you add depends of the head.
