LIN 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Part Of Speech, Free Content
16 Jan 2017
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Internal structure of words; formed from smaller meaningful pieces and from other words. Root: word that another word is based on. Parts of speech, classes of words that differ in how other words can be constructed out of them. Open: new words added to language usually belong to these categories. Smallest linguistic unit with meaning or grammar function. Free morphemes: ones that can be used as words by themselves. Bound roots: has some associated basic meaning, but cannot stand alone. Function morphemes (function words): primarily grammatically relevant info; no semantic content. Forms new words not with affixes but from +2 independent words (free morphemes, words from affixation, compounded words) Not consistently written; written together, separately, or with hyphen. Stress on first word only, while individual words are both stressed. Reduplicant: reduplicated piece, described as first syllable of stem. E(cid:374)glish: (cid:374)o syste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) use, (cid:271)ut (cid:374)o(cid:374)syste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) (cid:272)ases su(cid:272)h as (cid:858)(cid:271)ye (cid:271)ye(cid:859) or e(cid:373)phasis/i(cid:374)te(cid:374)sity.
