LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Morphological Derivation, Part Of Speech, Affix
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Required readings: o"grady & archibald, chapter 4, sections 4. 3-4. 5: derivational affixes (review) Inflectional affixes: add to the lexical meaning expressed by the root (express grammatical function). Derivational affixes: change the lexical meaning expressed by the root (and usually change its part of speech too). Inflectional suffixes here mark ______________________________ tense and number. *he values happy: happy: name the property, character, happiness: the state/quality of being happy. Affixation also changes the category of the word: happy: adjective; happiness: noun. N = noun (the ___, a/an ___ ) V = verb (agree with the subject with respect to gender, number, person, etc. ) A = adjective (modify n, be/look/feel/sound__ ) Adv = adverb (modify v, modify a, modify sentence) P = preposition ( __ n; in, on, with, during, etc. ) Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. (a) (a) (n) (v) (adv: derivation of words. Not all affixes can attach directly to the root.
