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Core Linguistics
words are signs
signifier = form = morphology (phonology)
signified = meaning = semantics
(pragmatics)
combination of words = sentence structure =
syntax
Morphology: language types
analytic languages signal grammatical
relationships by word position in the
sentence (= word order)
synthetic languages signal grammatical
relationships by the shape of the words
(=inflectional endings)
1500 years ago, English was much more
synthetic than it is today. It has changed
into a more analytic language
Morphology
definition: morphology studies the smallest
meaningful units, called 'morphemes'
Morphology
Inflection Word-Formation
Derivation Compounding
types of inflection