LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Affix

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3005
• Professor: Daniel Siddiqi

Document Summary

Systematic difference between clitics and affixes (as well, compounds and phrases) Syntax cannot see inside the referent of a compound. Things that syntax does do that morphology doesn"t, long distance dependency, inside of word. Syntax and morphology are the same observation (for the most part) You can have syntax inside of a word, phrasal compound clitics are affixes or word/phrases. Dan considers himself californian even though he hasn"t lived there in years ( there" is a referent) Syntax looks inside the word californian to find the word california (sub lexical indexation) Morphology is fundamentally difference from syntax can account for more data. Words of english are a fixed set that needs to be explained not in syntax. Word storage memory strength, frequency effects. A word is a recognized pattern that we see a lot. Central problem of morphology is that we don"t agree on what exactly we are studying.