CH6 Morphology

• Free Morphemes- Can exist independently eg. sist-assist,resist...
• Bound Morphemes- Can't not exist independently, should be with a host,and get meaning with prefix or suffix, eg, -ing/-ed/-er/pre-

• Morpheme is the smallest units in language: eg, algebra has three morphemes/ explanation has four syllables

• Morphology- how words are constructed out of morphemes or marked via other process,eg, derivational, inflectional, back-formations.

• Problems in morphological description is, historical influences and the effect of borrowed elements.

• Lexical (open) class of words- Words which can expend without limitation through  process such as, compounding, derivation, borrowing,etc

• Functional-Preposition,Article,Conjunction eg, and,but,when,in,that,etc

• Derivational morpheme- Able to create new words with different parts of speech
• Inflectional morpheme- Change to form of words, but do not change the parts of speech by adding,eg, s(plural),ing,ed,en,est,er,'s,s.

Morpheme:

• Free morpheme- Lexical- functional
• Bound morpheme-Derivational- inflectional                             1100208022 黃薏臻

20130309 CH5

After our discussion, this is some of our notes.
Give more notes and some points to improve and discuss.
*Remember!3/11(Mon)12:00 the same time! Discussing time.
By Cherry

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1. Borrowing
taking over of words from other languages.
Words from other languages. Ex. pizza and tycoon.
Loan-translation(direct translation). EX. Superman and grate-ciel(French)


2.Compounding
A process that put two complete words into one new form. Ex.fast-food

3.Blending
It combines part of two words or more into one new form.Ex.breakfast and brunch.

4.Clipping
One syllable from a word.

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