ANTH 005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Bertrand Russell, Perlocutionary Act, Moe Williams
9 May 2020
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Morphology is the study of words and their structure. Morphemes are the smallest units in a language that carry meaning. Yesterday john ran away with the baker"s younger daughter. Yester + day + john + ran +a + way + with + the + bake + er + s + young + er + daughter. Major morphemes = bases/roots: carries basic meaning of any word, which can be modified or changed by any affixes. Minor morphemes = affixes: prefixes, suffixes, and infixes. Inflectional affixes combine with word bases to add information such as tense, aspect, number, gender and the like (e. g. , plural -s, past -ed, superlative -est) Derivation is a process of word formation. Derivational affixes are added to existing words or bases to form new words (i. e. baker) Same privilege of occurrence - words that fill the same slots in constructions and thus have the same grammatical functions.
