Anthropology 1027A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Part Of Speech, Preposition And Postposition, Affix
15 Aug 2012
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October 19, 2011: the study of form or shape. Internal structure of words: how meaningful pieces of language combine and recombine to form words, morpheme the smallest linguistic unit that can carry meaning (plurals plural and s, lexicon the mental dictionary. Organization in the lexicon: lexical categories: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, determiner, preposition, conjunction. Noun: refers to a person, place or thing. Verb: indicates occurrence or performance of an action, or the existence of a state or condition. Adverb: modifies a verb, another adverb, or an adjective (example: very, slowly, etc. ) Pronoun: replaces a noun when that noun has already been mentioned. Determiner: also called articles", modify a noun (the their) Preposition: indicates relationship of one word to another: regular patterns for creating new words. /i/ adds the meaning of to have the quality of : affixes. An affix can attach to a root or a stem (a root with one or more affixes)
