Introduction to Linguistics: Morphology 1

Lecture 10. Prof. Futrell begins discussing morphology, the structure of words. The idea of a morpheme, kinds of morphemes, and lexical categories.

[lunarghoulx]

Thank you for this video! I'm in the first year of my bachelor's degree at an online school. They SUCK at teaching (actually I wouldn't know bc they never teach us shit) so I literally have to teach myself everything. So I'm grateful to have found this video before my linguistics exam next month.

[juxtalks]

I always get confused with the comfortable example because I think the change in the pronunciation is diff as a suffix due to the phonological rule making it an allomorph of able

[MashoMc]

thanks for the lecture! but why did you put like as an affix and not a morpheme when it can stand alone as a word, but -li is a morpheme and not an affix?

[gabor]

19:27 Don't forget to lengthen the vowel in _ház._ "Háza" means his/her house but "haza" means home country. You forgot to lengthen the first vowel in both the pronunciation and the IPA transcription.
Just to be clear, "egy ház" means one house, "egyház" means church or clergy. Did you confuse these two? The phrase meaning 'one house' is two words, so "egy" is not a prefix (unless you meant church/clergy). Also, "egybor" is not a word.
Look, I'm always happy when a linguist mentions my language but these examples were weird. Better examples would've been _megy_ (to go), _elmegy_ (to go away), _megyek_ (I go), _fut_ (to run), _elfut_ (to run away) with _el_ being a prefix and a bound morpheme based on this data alone (in actuality it's a free morpheme).

[zasharan]

Can languages consist solely of monomorphemic words?

[mqoqyrv]

Amazing work ofc, but the Ancient Greek pronounciation was kinda wrong 😅 It makes me wonder though, if it is truly phonetically transcribed like that, could it be pronounced differently back then?
Anyway, in γράφω the φ is pronounced as f/ph. So, in phonemic transcription, it is something like γrafo.

[devonashwa]

one year later, if you take apart cat, you get @. whats up with that? around 10 min mark. dont lie to us we need answers

[gabor]

I'm rewatching this series 4 months later. Anyway.
8:07 "When you take away from a morpheme, you get no relevant identifiable meaning." Unless you consider the Czech word žena, meaning woman (nominative singular). If you take away the "a", you get žen which is the genitive plural form.

[DA-bmmj]

This lecture is just toooo This could have been a 5 minute video easily.