ACS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Part Of Speech, Word Formation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 106
• Professor: Jamin Pelkey

Document Summary

History, what you call yourself, what people call you, your enemies, who you are oppressed by. Being able to understand the person you"re speaking to. In china, bc of history, identity and writing system, they consider to be the same language (but they have cantonese, mandarin, hakka, etc. ) In scandinavia people of danish and swedish can understand each other, but they have distinct identities. Identity weak (they have strong similar identity, but also different identities) Intelligibility (language system you come up with) no. Phenology = systems of convenience to know what to ignore. The best test for categories of words is the ad lib insertion of them. You must have context to figure out whats a noun/verb/other. Word behaviour, morphemes and words irregular verbs (swam, dove) that have inconsistent patterning. Morphemes: the smallest units of meaning in a word. Morphemes are composed of sound (or sign) sequences and form the building blocks of words.