LING 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Undressed, Content Word
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In many languages, what appears to be single forms actually turn out to contain a large number of word-like elements. Morphology: the analysis of the structure of words. Known as the study of forms , it was originally used in biology, but since the middle of the 19th century it has also been used to describe the type of investigation that analyzes all those basic. Elements in the form of a linguistic message are technically known as morphemes . Word forms are consist of a number of elements. We can recognize that english word forms such as talks, talker, talked, and talking must consist of on element talk, and the four other elements -s, -er, -ed, and -ing. Morphemes: a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function. Units of grammatical function include forms used to indicate past tense or plural, for example.
