LINGUIS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1: Glossary Of Ancient Roman Religion, Part Of Speech, Morpheme

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIS 100
• Professor: Line Mikkelsen

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Stem: the thing to which the af x is attached, may be more than one. Homophonous: words or af xes that have the same phonetic form but different meanings or function. Friendship friend is the root and the stem of -ship, -ship is a derivational af x, -s is in ectional af x, friendship is the stem of -s. Content: carries semantic content (refer to something in out in the world) Derivational af xes, bound roots, free roots that belong to open lexical categories. In ectional af xes, free roots that belong to closed lexical categories. Productive rules: rules that can be applied to novel forms. Derivation: create a new word out of another (change of lexical category) In ection: create a new grammatical form (rather than an entirely new word)