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Linguistics - Morphology Key terms
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- 1Inflectional MorphologyNew word forms; adds grammatical meaning
regular, cannot change word class
After derivational M. - 2Derivational Morphology- New words, adds lexical meaning
less regular, can change word class
Before inflectional M. - 3Lexeme"word"
(dictionary entry, different inflectional forms possible) - 4Word classesOpen Class
- nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
- content words, adopt new members
Closed class
- prepositions, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, auxiliaries
grammatical items, rarely new members - 5MorphemesSmallest meaning-carrying unit of language
- { }
undesirable --> {un}+{desire}+{able} - 6Morph + Allomorphsactual realisation of a morpheme
morpheme: = {house}+{plural}
morph:
Allomorph are different realisations of for example {plural} --> , ,
(phonologically conditioned - 7Classification of MorphemesFree Morphemes
-- Grammatical (up, must, you, and)
--lexical (idea, tree, run)
Bound Morphemes
-- Grammatical (inflectional; {plural})
-- Lexical:
-(derivational; {anti-}{-able}
- Unique morphemes, roots: {hackle-} - 8Affixes + Enclitics/ ProcliticsBound morphemes --> grammatical and lexical But: all inflectional affixes are suffixes
- Prefix, suffix, circumfix
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Doesn't/D'you - 9Complementary Distributionpredictable variations in phonetics
last sound of stem predicts choice of allomorph
3d person, plural, possessive / past
- sibilants: /iz/ /id/
- voiced sounds /z/ /d/
-voiceless sounds /s/ /t/
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- Linguistics (Introduction to English Linguistics) Flashcards on Linguistics - Morphology Key terms, created by Pauli Ketchum on 11/07/2017.
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