LING101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Circumfix, Fax
13 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Words are built up of one or more morphemes. Deactivate = de - act - ive - ate. A morpheme is any of the minimal units of speech which carry a meaning or function. Morphemes consist of a form and a meaning or function. Meaning = marks the following noun phrase as a beneficiary. Do not confuse morphemes with sound sequences. Too, to, and two are different morphemes (all have the same phonological form/are pronounced the same, but have different meanings) All morphemes are either free or bound. A free morpheme can appear on its own. A bound morpheme cannot appear on its own. Some bound morphemes appear in one word only. Some words contain more than one free morpheme. The root carries the word"s principal meaning. The root may or may not be able to stand alone. Affixes are used heavily in many languages to create forms. Attaches to the beginning of a stem.
