Notes (Gibbon)

Dictionaries

Classes of Words

• Lexical Content Words.
• Function Words.

Wordsets

Morphemes: The Minimal Units of Meaning

• Bound vs. Free Morphemes.
• Roots vs. Affixes.

Rules of Word Formation

• Lexical Gaps.
• ``Pullet Suprises´´.

Word Coinage

• Compounds.
• Acronyms.
• Blends.
• Back-Formations.
• Abbreviations.
• Words from Names.

Grammatical Morphemes

• Inflectional Morphemes.
• Morphology and Syntax.

Terminology

morpheme:

arbitrary:

linguistic sign:

orthography:

grammatical category:

syntactic class:

mental dictionary:

lexicography:

content words:

function words:

open class:

closed class:

generic:

morphology:

affix:

prefix:

suffix:

infix:

circumfix:

discontinuous morphemes:

free morpheme:

bound morpheme:

root:

monomorphemic words:

polymorphemic words:

lexical gaps:

morphological rules:

derivational morphemes:

productivity:

antonyms:

accidental gaps:

compounds:

acronyms:

blends:

back formations:

abbreviations:

words from names:

inflectional morphemes:

suppletive forms:

zero forms:

Overview of morphology