LING 111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Isolating Language, Inflection, Function Word
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Types of morphemes: different languages have different word meanings for different morphemes, chinese isolating language, english isolating language, there is a continuum. Morphology studies the regularities that govern how morphemes are allowed to combine to form words in each language. Structure of words: morphemes are the smallest units of meaning or grammatical function in a language. For example, readers can be separated into read, er, and s Morphology makes claims about states of mind: suggests something about the way the mind organizes language. Not merely a list of words: instead a list of morphemes; and. Free morphemes can stand alone, e. g. read Bound morphemes cannot, e. g. er, s -ing. Affixes: many morphemes are affixes: terms added onto other root terms. Prefixes are added to the beginning: e. g. Suffixes are added to the end: e. g. Infixes are added in the middle of words. There are few examples in english of this.
