语言学教程第4章Morphology.pptVIP

Chapter 3: Morphology 3.1 Introduction Morphology refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed. Nothing is more important to language than words. Words are stored in speaker’s mental dictionary or lexicon, and they are the fundamental building blocks of a language. Countless words are constructed and can be comprehended by the application of general rules of word constitution. 3.2 open class closed class Open class words----new words can be added content words of a language to which we can regularly add new words, such as nouns, adjectives,