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    This document summarizes key concepts in morphology and lexical categories. It discusses what words and morphemes are, the different parts of speech, how morphemes are organized within words, and how languages increase their vocabulary through processes like compounding, derivation, and borrowing. It also describes different morphological systems like isolating, agglutinating, and inflectional morphology and the concept of allomorphy.

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    Chapter 2 Words and Their Parts: Lexicon and Morphology

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    Trisha Camille Ortega
    This document summarizes key concepts in morphology and lexical categories. It discusses what words and morphemes are, the different parts of speech, how morphemes are organized within words, and how languages increase their vocabulary through processes like compounding, derivation, and borrowing. It also describes different morphological systems like isolating, agglutinating, and inflectional morphology and the concept of allomorphy.

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    Chapter 2 Words and Their Parts: Lexicon and Morphology

    Introduction: Words Are Tangible

    What Does It Mean to Know a Word?

    Lexical Categories (Parts of Speech)


    How to Identify Lexical Categories
    Verbs
    Nouns
    Adjectives
    Pronouns
    Determiners
    Prepositions and Postpositions
    Adverbs
    Conjunctions

    Morphemes Are Word Parts That Carry Meaning


    Morphemes Can Be Free or Bound
    Morphemes That Derive Other Words
    Inflectional Morphemes

    How Are Morphemes Organized Within Words?


    Morphemes Are Ordered in Sequence
    Morphemes Can Be Discontinuous
    Portmanteau Words Contain Merged Morphemes
    Morphemes Are Layered Within Words

    How Does a Language Increase Its Vocabulary?


    Some Word Classes Are Open, Some Closed
    How to Derive New Words
    Compounds
    Shortenings
    Back Formation
    Conversion or Functional Shift
    Semantic Shift
    Borrowed Words
    Inventing Words

    What Types of Morphological Systems Do Languages Have?


    Isolating Morphology
    Agglutinating Morphology
    Inflectional Morphology

    Variant Pronunciations of a Morpheme: Allomorphy

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