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Revisamos la prueba.
Dictionary → online etymology → Etymonline
busca el origen de las palabras.
★ Words can be divided into two basic classes: content words and function words.
★ Morphology helps us recognize words and possible words.
★ Lexicon → Our mental dictionary; stores information about words and the lexical
rules that we use to build them.
★ Onomatopoeia → Use of word for which the connection between sound and
meaning seems non arbitrary because the world's sound echoes its meaning.
★ Content words → Words with lexical meaning (like nouns, verbs, adjectives,
adverbs)
★ Closed class → Category of words that does not accept new members, (like
determiners, auxiliary verbs and conjunctions, among others)
MORPHOLOGY TREES.
Illustrate:
1. What are the individual morphemes that are in a given word?
2. in what order the affixes were added to the root
Unbelievable
Un- + believe (verb) + -able
Rewritable
re- + write (verb) + -able
re → verb → verb (redo, remove)
-able → verb → adj (separable, understandable)
UNIT II (PART 3)
Agglutive → La raíz de la palabra atrae morfemas, de pasado, de personas, etc, pero cada
uno es identificable, se atraen entre sí. No funcionan por sí solos.
→ El orden es noun prefix-punctual-look for-
Analytic language
→ Son más sencillos en cómo arman sus palabras, en un idioma cada palabra es un free
morpheme, casi no hay inflexión, sufijos, prefijos, etc.
→ The first example we’ll see is from English and the second from a language called Aztec.
Kanuri (Nigeria)
Adjective Noun
(‘excellent’) karite nəmkarite (‘excellence’)
(‘big’) kura nəmkura (‘bigness’)
(‘small’) gana nəmgana (‘smallness’)
(‘bad’) dibi nəmdibi (‘badness’)
→ From this set, we can propose that the prefix nəm- is a derivational morpheme that can
be used to derive nouns from adjectives.
→ Discovering a regular morphological feature of this type will enable us to make certain
predictions when we encounter other forms in the language.
→ For example, if the Kanuri word for ‘’lenght’’ is nəmkurugu, then we can be reasonably
sure that ‘long’ is kurugu.
UNIT II (PART 4)
● Coining → Are words that have been recently created. They often apply to new
inventions or concepts. (menos productivo)
→ La creación de una palabra por completo, sacar una palabra de ningún lado, inventarla
desde cero. (ej: shakespeare)
→ The meaning of many compounds is fairly transparent; a blackbird is a type of bird, and
a supermom is a type of mom.