TESL 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Doghouse, Analytic Language, Affix
18 Oct 2018
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Morpheme: smallest piece of a word that still carries meaning. Allomorph: different way that the same morpheme can show up/different pronunciations of the same morpheme. : dogs hats both have a plural morpheme, but one comes out sounds like a s and the other like a z. Free morphemes/base morphemes: can stand on their own. Does not need to be attached to another morpheme to be used like dog. Bound morpheme/affixes: needs to be with another morpheme and cannot be alone: derivational bound morphemes : build new words : think + re = rethink. Inflectional bound morpheme: build new forms of a word: dog + s = dogs. Compounding: puts free morphemes together to represent a new concept. Doghouse = dog + house to make a new concept. Root morpheme: where the work begins: think. this word holds most of the meaning. Inflectional affix: s not part of the stem.
