语言学第三章笔记和习题.pdfVIP

Chapter 3 Morphology Lexicon is the collection of all the words of a language. It is synonymouswith “vocabulary ”. Words are the focus of the study of lexicon, so the emphasis of this chapter falls upon words, ., the analysis and creation of words. Linguists define the word as the smallest free form found in language. The features of word Word is meaningful; word is a grammatical unit; word can be used independently; word is relatively stable and uninterrup