Week2-2Morphology

Mental lexicon

We can infer the POS of the certain words or some properties of the unknown words, given the morphological representation of the words.

Derivational Morphology

Undoable vs. unbelievable

• Undoable
  
  • unable to be done
  • able to be undone
• Unbelievable
  
  • unable to be believed
  • ?? able to be unbelieved

Morphemes

Inflectional Morphology

Morphological analysis

• sleeps = sleep + V + 3P + SG
• done = do + V + PP