1. Morphology 1 Class # 5 Chapter 3

2. Content Words x Function Words What are content words? Give examples. Why are content words called “open class”? What are function words? Give examples. Why are function words called “closed class”?

3. What does Morphology study? Words have internal structure, which is rule- governed These rules are the object of study of MORPHOLOGY Study of the morphemes and the rules combining them

4. What is a morpheme? “smallest unit of linguistic meaning” How many morphemes? dog dogs worked beautifully agree

5. Bound x Free Morpheme What is a free morpheme? Give examples. What is a bound morpheme? Give examples.

6. Bound morphemes (affixes) Prefixes (e.g., re-; over-; super-; anti-) Suffixes (e.g., -ish; -ness; -ly) Infixes (midde) Circumfixes (attached both initially and finally)

7. Derivational Morphology Unbelievable Un + believe + able ROOT: believe STEM: believable WORD: unbelievable Derivational Morphology: morphemes are added in a fixed order. This order reflects the hierarchical structure of the word.

8. Derivational morphology Unsystematic 1 – system 2 – system + atic = systematic 3 – un + systematic = unsystematic The root “system” is closer to “atic” than it is to “un”. “Un” is connected to “systematic” and not to “system”

9. Productivity Not all affixes attach to all roots How do you make nouns from these adjectives? true friendly curious How would you make nouns from these adjectives? brillig sliptic plue snerf

10. How many morphemes? replaces retroactive televise deactivation mistreatment unacceptable

11. Tree diagrams DERIVATION Derive + ation ATION: V  N

12. Tree diagrams TRANSFERABILITY Transfer: (V) Able: V  Adj Ity: Adj  Noun

13. Tree diagrams UNENJOYABLE (Adj) Enjoy (V) Un: V  V or Adj  Adj Able: V  Adj

14. Tree diagrams ALIENATION Alien + ate + ation Why is it different from “derivation”?