Morphological Types of Languages - Linguistics

Morphological Typology

Ling 100 ? Introduction to Linguistic Science Guest Lecture ? Jonathan Manker 26 February 2016

What is Typology?

? Linguistic typology is a branch of linguistics that attempts to categorize languages based on similarities in structure (phonological inventories, grammatical constructions, word order, etc.)

Typological Map of Consonant Inventory Sizes

Morphological Typology

? Languages have a wide variety of morphological processes available (e.g. different types of affixation, etc.) for creating words and word forms.

? However, languages vary with respect to what morphological processes are available, how frequently they are used, and what types of information can be encoded in these processes.

? In this lecture, we'll look at differences in morphology among a variety of languages and learn to categorize these languages based on their morphological patterns.

What is a word?

? Before we discuss properties of word structure in different languages, we have to define what it is we mean when we refer to something as a `word.'

? Question: Think about the two strings of sounds below. How many words are in each?

[?kwkbanfaksd mpsov?lezidg] [?ntadsst?blmnteinzm]

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