LING 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Part Of Speech, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Thaler
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Morphology: types of words (internal structure of words). Morpheme: the smallest unit with a meaning (cat, or even ed meaning. Free morpheme: units that can be words on their own. Bound roots: words that meaning and are used as roots, but can"t stand along (like -fer, -ceive, -sist) Content morpheme: (words that refer to real things out in the world): Function morpheme: (adds meaning to the word but doesn"t have it"s open lexical categories + bound roots + derivational affixes) own content): closed lexical categories + inflectional affixes. Form: what a word sounds like when spoken. Meaning: what a word is referring to. Open lexical categories: (new words can be added) Closed lexical categories: (pretty much predetermined words) Pronouns (we, she, they), prepositions (on, of, under, for), determiners (a, the, this), conjunctions (and, or, but). Derivation: creating words out of other words. Cat (noun) is the root word, catty (adjective) is the derivation. Affix: added pieces (un, re, y, etc)
