Morphology and Lexicon：形态学和词汇.pptVIP

Morphology and Lexicon Lecture 3 Morphology and Lexicon Morphology studies morphemes and their different forms and the way they combine in word formation. Lexicon refers to the set of all the words and idioms of any language. Words and Word Classes Every speaker of a language knows thousands, even tens of thousands, of words. From the nature of language, we know that knowing a word means knowing both its sound and its meaning. The sound and the meaning of a word cannot be separated. Words and Word Classes Traditionally, people tend to think of a word as a meaningful group of letters print