Morphology

knowing the word

how many different words do you know

content word

function word

open class

close class

spelling

grammatical category/ syntactic class

sound

orthography

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make language function// grammatical relation and have little or no semantic content

make language function: articles, conj, article, prep

noun, verbs, adjective, adverbs

what can we do with morphemes?

what is morpheme?

greek: morphe: form

morph & ology

most elemental unit of grammatical form

study of internal structure of words, and of how to form the word

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decompose things, we can break into smaller blocks and use those words to rebuild

the fundamental properties of discreteness in human language

how many morphemes are there?

free morphemes

bound morphemes

they always need other morphemes to which they can attach to

complete words by themselves

word coinage

affixes

little bits we add to words

infixes

prefix

precede other morphemes

suffixes

inserted into other morphemes

circumfixes

attached to base morphemes initially and finally

other dimensions of morpheme

roots

stem

derivational morphology

inflectional morphology

  1. some meaning change
  1. small or no meaning change
  1. never required grammatically
  1. may change word class
  1. precede inflectional morphemes in a word
  1. lexical function/ meaning
  1. some productive and many non-productive
  1. often required grammatically
  1. no word class change
  1. follow derivational morpheme
  1. grammatical function
  1. productive

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exceptions/ suppletions

rule productivity

form new words from free and bound Morpheme, might be complex

structural ambiguous

compounds

lexical/ anticcedental gaps

word formation

irregular/ suppletive

forms are treated separately in grammar

well-formed but not existing word

back formation

a new word enters the language because of an incorrect morphological analysis

create BICEPS from BICEP (biology)

2 words put together and make new language and may change the whole meaning

follow other morphemes