COMD 2050 : COMD 2050 Exam 2
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We make words in eight different ways: coinage, rarely happens, trade names becomes everyday words. Infixes: comes right before a stressed syllable. Morphology: example: abso- f***ing- lutley, to analyze al of the basic elements used in languages, morpheme, smallest unit of meaning, example: re, compound words, two morpheme put together, two types of morphemes, free morpheme. Indicate grammatical function: example: he loves her, example: unhappiness 3 morphemes (un-happy-ness, example: reviewers- 4 morphemes (review and viewers- derivation) Morphology: morphemes, unfortunately- 4 morpheme, memorable- 2 (memory, memorable, antidisestablishmentarianism- (establish) Morphological trees: lexical categories- parts of speech, trees always grow up, government- govern (verb) with ment (noun) Ment: spiteful, spite (noun) with ful (adjective, reconstruction, construct (verb), construction (noun), reconstruction (noun, construct (verb), reconstruct (verb), reconstruction (noun, unlockable- not able to locked, or able to be unlocked. How do we know a noun is a noun: nouns have derivational morphemes.
