Introduction and Core Concepts | Morphology Linguistics

An introduction to #morphology in #linguistics and its core concepts. We cover words, affixes, inflections, derivations, data sets, allomorphy, and more!

0:00 Introduction
1:40 Morphemes
4:25 Defining Orthographic and Phonological Words
6:03 Lexemes and Grammatical Words
7:25 Word Categories
8:43 Nouns and Verbs
9:50 Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions
11:10 Word Category Practice
12:35 Free and Bound Morphemes
14:30 Affixation (Prefixes and Suffixes)
16:02 Affixation (Infixes and Circumfixes)
17:10 Morpheme Practice
19:15 Inflection vs Derivation
21:00 Inflections
22:18 Inflection Showcase (Equatives and Converbs)
24:05 Inflection Identification Practice
25:21 Ambiguous Morphemes
27:00 Allomorphs
28:25 Phonological Conditioning (Assimilation)
29:55 Phonological Conditioning(English Plurals)
31:50 Lexical Conditioning (Irregular English Plurals)
32:55 Allomorphy Practice (English Indefinites)
34:30 Grammatical Conditioning
35:35 Portuguese Noun Practice

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[galaxygur]

Thank you! This video has added very fundamental blocks to the foundation of my knowledge, and I think this understanding of basics is important to advance in learning natural languages as well programming.

[nazaninshafiabadi]

The video was great, thank you. There is just one mistake that I think I should point out, and that is in the inflections of the word “xaridan” from Persian which you have included as practice. “Minaxaridam” is not a word. The correct form is “nemixaridam“, and x is pronounced like “kh”. All in all I have benefitted a lot from your videos, so thanks!

[meta]

In relation to the Portuguese examples I understand that the data is very limited, however, I would still question why a plural /s/ would affect the vowel in the previous syllable, I wouldn't see any phonological motivation for /s/ to spread and trigger any owering process in the vowel in the root. If we had a hypothetical [oʎu] -> [ɔʎos] we could say that the plural morpheme triggered lowering of the vowels, but it would still be difficult to explain how /s/ would trigger such phenomenon. Going beyond the data, the answer is that these cases are lexically conditioned, there are words like almoço (lunch) which does not change the vowel high in the plural form (almoço ~ almoços /aw'mosu ~ aw'mosus/). The plural morpheme is normally voiceless unless the next word starts with a voiced segment. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it.

[faisalqureshi]

I learned that morph is the phonological representation of the morpheme. Is it true?

[aritzlizarragaolascoaga]

German and Germanic aren’t synonyms. English came from Anglo-Saxon, which was a Germanic language, but German wasn’t yet around at the time.