Topics Morphological processes Derivation and Inflection Derivation

Derivational process• A binary systemTake a form and apply a function to it, thentake the output and another function on it.• Parasynthetic word-formation: conflation oftwo morphological templates resulting inattachment of a prefix and a suffixTree diagrams• Show the internal structure of complexwords• Draw tree diagrams of the following wordsinsightful Americanize oversimplificationTree diagrams• Words that look similar may have distinctstructures.pseudonaturalisticsupernaturalisticTree diagrams• There are forms that are ambiguous.undressedunzippedundoable• un with verb – revesative (which can be undone)• un with adjective – not (which cannot be done)