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CH 7, Free morpheme (Definition: units that could stand alone as words by…
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Free morpheme
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Non-example: Bound morphemes-units that must be attached to a free morpheme, such as the letter 's' in the word "trees"
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Inflectional Morphemes
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Example: an inflectional morpheme doesn't change a word from a noun to a verb or a verb to an adjective
Non-example: Derivational affixes--change the meaning of the world word and can be either prefixes or suffixes
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Content words
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Example: Content words include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
Non-example: function words --> words that serve a variety of purposes, such as determiners and quantifiers
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Analytic Language
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Characteristics: In analytic languages, morphemes are not bound to one another
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Non-example: The Latin language is classified as synthetic. Synthetic languages add many inflections to words.
Polysynthetic Language
Definition: many more inflections are added than in a synthetic language, such as Latin. Polysynthetic languages are considered "super synthetic"
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Example: One word in the polysynthetic Native American language Ojibwe: baataanitaaanishinaabemong="being able to speak Ojibwe"
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