LIN203H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Part Of Speech, Affix, Lexeme
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A lexical component is one whose function is primarily to provide meaning. A lexical morph, the smallest, indivisible, simplex lexical component in a word, is called a root. Root tells us more about the meaning of a word than anything else. Sometimes can have more than one roots in a word. Free morphs morphs that can constitute words by themselves (they can stand alone), like boy, dog, run. Bound morphs morphs can never be words by themselves, for instance ish, -able, -ness, un- Morphological components that are not lexical are called affixes. Prefixes: affixes that attach before their base are called prefixes. Suffixes: affixes that attach after their base are called suffixes. Infixes: morphs that are inserted into the main root morph of a word. Example of infixes: the verb to attach n- in fingo, fingere. A fossil infix in stand, think and bring.
