ANTHRO 2D Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Morpheme, Xavante Language

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 2D
• Professor: Keith Murphy

Document Summary

Anthro 2d - lecture 4 - morphology & syntax. Morpheme - the smallest independently meaning unit of language. Clusters of sounds within languages that mean or do specific things. /h/ /e/ /l/ /m/ /e/ /t/ 6 phonemes. Dis (negates) + agree (root) + ment (noun) + s (plural) Words can be made up of multiple morphemes. Examples: book, bird, phone, beep, in, job, chocolate, withdrawal, elimination. Bound morphemes - must attach to free morphemes. Abso-fucking-lutely, a whole nother, legen-wait for it-dary. Inflectional - these do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge a word"s (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g or (cid:272)lass* Derivational - these (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge a word"s (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g or (cid:272)lass* Syntax - the rules that hold sentences together. *s = subject, v = verb, o = object. Sov the girl the ball caught. Svo the girl caught the ball. Vso caught the girl the ball. Vos caught the ball the girl. Osv the ball the girl caught. Ovs the ball caught the girl.