First AT Morphology/Lexicology

What is Lexicology?

The study of the vocabulary within a language

What is a noun?

A naming word
People, places, foods, feelings.
*test to identify a nouns- if you can put a for the Infront of it is it

What is a compounding noun?

nouns with multiple words
can be made up of other words that are not nouns
Swimming Pool

What is a proper noun?

Name specific things, places, titles, companies or people and they are always capitalized.
South Africa

Nouns can also be made from one word made into two

drink
two meanings

What are singular and plural nouns

s is one object
p is more than one object

What are concrete nouns?

Something you can physically experience with your 5 senses

People, race track

What are abstract nouns?

Things you cannot use your 5 senses to experience.
Love, hate, happiness

What are common nouns?

Non specific person place or things
book, chair, ocean

What is language?

It is a rule-governed system of communication that uses meaningful symbols to create, express, and interpret ideas, information, emotions, identities and relationships. It allows people to share meaning across different situations, times and cultures. It can be spoken, written, signed or digitally represented, constantly changing as society changes.

What is a verb?

Expresses an action, occurrence or state of being.
run, think, is

What is an adjective?

Modifies/describes a noun or noun phrase.
beautiful, enormous.

What is an adverb?

Modifies a verb, adjective, adverb or clause.
quickly, yesterday, very

Pronoun

Substitutes for or refers to a noun/noun phrase.
I, we, me, our, us

Determinier

Occurs before a noun and helps specify or identify it.
the, and, its, that

Prepostion

Shows a relationship between words, often involving place, time or direction.
in, under, around

Conjunction

Connects words, phrases or clauses.
two types
coordinating- connects equal parts of a sentece they can stand on their own the brackets go around
FANBOYS

• for

• and

• nor

• but

• or

• yet

• so
  
  subordinating- connects dependent to independent clauses they sit in the clause brackets in the clause
  
  

• although

• while

• when

• if

• unless
  
  

What is morphology?

Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words and how words are formed from morphemes.

free

A morpheme that can stand independently as a word.

Examples:

• cat

• run

• happy

• book

bound

A morpheme that cannot stand independently and must attach to another morpheme.

Examples:

• un-

• -ed

• -s

• -ness

• -ly

Affixation

Affixation is the process of attaching an affix to a base/stem to create a new word or grammatical form. Affix is a small group of letters added to the root or base of a word to change its meaning or grammar. PREFIX OR SUFFIX

Inflectional morpheme

Changes the grammatical form/function of a word but doesn't create a new lexeme.

derivational morpheme

A derivational morpheme creates a new word/lexeme or can change its word class.

Arbitrariness

There is no natural connection between a linguistic form and its meaning.