ENGLISH 3271 Lecture 8: 9.20.2016
8 Nov 2016
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Open and closed classes refer to morphemes, but also words. Open: subject to changes in form, subject to innovation or addition to the lexicon, carry referential meaning. These form the core referential meaning in any utterance. Eat pizza lunch: open class is about content and main meaning. Closed: not subject to changes in form, rarely subject to changes in innovation or addition to the lexicon, carry grammatical meaning. Meaning by reference to the structure of the language, the word"s function in a sentence, and other words in the sentence. Conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, determiners, prepositions, inflectional suffixes. Free: can stand alone to signal meaning. Bound: have to be attached to another morpheme to mean anything. Falls, lakes, unwell, enable, flatter: attach to a root morpheme, which carries the core referential meaning. Derivational affixes: derive new words from existing ones. Re + work = rework: prefixes, infixes, suffixes. Inflect but do not change content of word: changes grammatical meaning of word.
