LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Affix, Grammatical Gender
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Required readings: o"grady & archibald, chapter 4, sections 4. 0-4. 2: morphology, words, and morphemes. In english the word dinosaurs is separated by spaces. In japanese dinosaur(s)" is not separated by spaces, but it is obviously a separate word. Free forms are elements that do not have to occur in a fixed position with respect to neighbouring elements, and (in many cases) can appear in isolation. The item are: can occur in different positions in a sentence, dinosaurs are extinct, are dinosaurs extinct, does not usually occur in isolation. It is still a word (given 1). The item s: cannot occur in different positions in a sentence, dinosaur-s are extinct, *dinosaur are -s extinct, -s must occur with the noun that it attaches to, cannot occur in isolation. Words consist of morphemes: e. g. dinosaurs = dinosaur-s. Morpheme is the smallest unit in language that carries information about lexical or grammatical meaning. (cf.
