LINGUIST 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dog Food, Inflection, Bound And Unbound Morphemes

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Dr. Anderson

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Identify whether a word is monomorphemic or polymorphemic. A word is made up of just one morpheme. Made up of a root plus one or more affixes. Identify the morphemes that make up a polymorphemic word. The smallest unit that pairs a consistent form with a consistent meaning. Slightly related to each other but slightly different, depending on the surrounding environment. The number on a noun is inflectional morphology. The tense on the verb is an inflectional morphology. Related to the original word, but it had some new component of meaning to it and often belongs to a new category. A bound morpheme is affixed to a base. Derives a new word by joining two morphemes that would each usually be free morphemes. The head and the whole compound is obvious. The meaning of the head does not predict the meaning of the compound.