LIN203H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Lexeme, Affix, Parsing
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If a component is simplex, composed of no smaller components, it is called a morph: the process of dividing a word into morphs is called parsing (e. g. book-ish-ness) In our native vocabulary, roots can usually appear as independent words (known as free morphs) Inflectional affixes tell things such as: (-s,-ed,-ing: nouns (singular versus plural, e. g. child vs children, man vs men, book vs books, adjectives (degree of comparison, e. g. Simple vs simpler: verbs (tense, person, number, e. g. ran, runs, run, stem, components to which inflectional affixes are attached, can consist of only a root, but it may also be a more complex lexical component, endings. [write, writes, wrote, writing, written: word forms. Xerox is both a verb and a noun without adding any form of suffix (unlike magnet and magnetize: often, something is added in pronunciation if not spelling (words are stressed differently, e. g. In onomatopoeia, a word attempts to mimic the sound it describes.
