Fingtam Languages
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. (That is the definition from Wikipedia.)
In this video I will talk about why it is important to know a little about morphology if you are learning languages.
You need to know how your target language deals with prefixes, suffixes, and other types of affixes. Does your target language apply a bunch of affixes onto root words? Are all words single morphemes?
We will also talk about allomorphy. That is, how morphemes can alternate depending on their phonological environment.
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I am always bothered when to use the /z/ and /s/ sounds whenever the letter "s" is used. So when then letter before "s" is unvoiced then we'll use the /s/ sound as in "cats," on the other hand, when the letter before "s" is voiced then we'll have the /z/ sound instead as in "dogs." Am I right? Please do correct me if I am wrong. Thank you.
Hi! I love your videos, I was wondering can you please do a video on this series about phonological rules? Something about assimilation, voice harmony, etc.
In Chinese there are two words for "word", one is 字 referring to the individual characters, one is 词 referring to the characters that will make sense or give a certain meaning when they are grouped together. Qi chu 起初 is the latter. It combines qi which means begin/start with chu which means first/beginning to be qi chu meaning "in the beginning".
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Hey do you think "button" could be derived from the word "abut"?
Definition of abut:
(transitive verb) 1: to border on : to touch along an edge 2: to cause to touch or lean for support
(intransitive verb) 1: to touch along a border or with a projecting part 2 a): to terminate at a point of contact b): to lean for support
abut-on —> a button?
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Hey everyone! Cool lesson Aaron! Can you or anybody tell me the difference between a morph and a morpheme, please? Thanks a lot!
I know this video is like two years old but I just found this playlist, so I'd still like to ask something.
I'm currently studying Indonesian. They have the suffix -ku, which by itself is an abbreviation of "aku" (which would translate as the informal first person singular). Basically, you add it to a noun to indicate possession (e.g.: ibu = mother; ibuku = my mother). Would that be an inflectional or a derivational morpheme? How small does the added gramatical information has to be in order to be considered inflectional? Is it limited to conjugations and number?
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Hi does the environment always changes or are we supposed to remember the board??
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Hi.can you please tell me the word "handsome" has 2 morphemes or 1morpheme?and the word "reject"has 2 morphemes or 1 morpheme?plz help me with it.
In Nepali language, "I will love you" will translate to "म (I) तिमी+लाई (you+ to (preposition)) माया (love) गर्न+ने+छु (will do) |" with seven morphemes.
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I have a question
Is the subject 'I' a single morpheme???
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Why do languages have morphology??…..please help me
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Why do you use the term African-American English as if all African Americans speak this way? Especially when you have a plethora of examples of black people who don't speak this way and a loads of example of Whites who indeed use this form of English. And which part of America uses the infixes is that connected to a people as well? It doesn't make much sense at all really.
I am so grateful for your videos. If I hadn't discovered your videos, I think I would have dropped out of my linguistics course. You make it so easy to understand. The books you mentioned at the end of video 4 would help me with my current homework assignment. Could you please provide the titles? Thank you!
"Nitakupenda" would be translated as I will love you where as I love you would be written as "Nakupenda".
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thanks sir but that was not enough to me can you make more videos about morphology like prefixes and suffixes and affexes
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In an apple and a peach, is the [n] an allomorph?
nitakupenda-i will love you. ni=i, affirmative subject prefix. ta=will, future tense marker. ku=you, direct object pronoun. penda=love, from the verb infinitive kupenda(to love). don't confuse these two "ku's" though. kupenda by itself is the infinitive form of the verb and the ku prefix is removed before conjugating. like removing the "ar" from amar and adding tense endings in spanish. when you see nita-kupenda- in this example it doesn't mean "i will to love" though. the kupenda here is not the infinitive but rather the object pronoun ku prefixed to the verb(minus its ku prefix). this is better illustrated by the "strove" acronym in swahili grammar which indicates word order in a simple sentence. s=subject prefix, t=tense marker, r=relative infix, o=object infix, v=verb, e=endings. in the video's example only the "stov" are used. swahili is a beautifuly constructed language and fun to learn.
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Could you recommend some books for linguistics beginners like me?
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Hi, do you have a full free course about this? ( like intonation patterns). Thanks.
Thank you so much for this series of videos!! I’m currently in a Linguistics class and I’ve been feeling quite overwhelmed by it — the way you explain things is fantastic and has really helped me. Feeling way better about my midterm later today thanks to you 🙏