LING 1000 Lecture 2: Unit 2: Morphology
10 Mar 2017
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Added at the end - suffixes i. e. elephant, boy, desire. Morphemes can be a single word that cannot be broken down further into smaller elements. Branch of linguistics that studies words, how they are built and how they interact with other words. Adding s at the end of a word adds the meaning of plurality. Add -ly to descriptive words (adjectives) to form adverbs that can describe how something is being done i. e. quick --> quickly, slow --> slowly. Content words (open class because we can add new words to this group) And function words (closed class because we cannot add new words easily) No clear lexical meaning but grammatical function in language. Consists of conjunctions, prepositions (relations to space and time), determiners (modify nouns and specify or clarify the reference to the noun) and pronouns (take place of a noun) Free morphemes: morphemes that can stand on their own and cannot be broken down further.
