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20.1 Classifying Chinese Morphemes 20.1 Classifying Chinese Morphemes
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20.1.1 Free Versus Bound 20.1.1 Free Versus Bound
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20.1.2 Content Versus Function 20.1.2 Content Versus Function
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20.1.3 Morpheme Part of Speech 20.1.3 Morpheme Part of Speech
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20.1.4 Connecting Free/Bound with Content/Function 20.1.4 Connecting Free/Bound with Content/Function
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20.1.4.1 Content Words 20.1.4.1 Content Words
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20.1.4.2 Function Words 20.1.4.2 Function Words
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20.1.4.3 Bound Roots 20.1.4.3 Bound Roots
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20.1.4.4 Affixes 20.1.4.4 Affixes
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20.2 Assembling the Morphemes 20.2 Assembling the Morphemes
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20.2.1 A Note on the Notion of ‘Head’ 20.2.1 A Note on the Notion of ‘Head’
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20.3 Assembling the Morphemes: Complex Words 20.3 Assembling the Morphemes: Complex Words
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20.3.1 Compound and Bound Root Words 20.3.1 Compound and Bound Root Words
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20.3.1.1 Compound and Bound Root Nouns 20.3.1.1 Compound and Bound Root Nouns
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20.3.1.2 Compound and Bound Root Verbs 20.3.1.2 Compound and Bound Root Verbs
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20.3.2 Affixed Words 20.3.2 Affixed Words
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20.3.2.1 Derived Words 20.3.2.1 Derived Words
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20.3.2.2 Inflected Words 20.3.2.2 Inflected Words
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20.3.3 Inflection as a Morphological Process 20.3.3 Inflection as a Morphological Process
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20.4 Verb Inflection 20.4 Verb Inflection
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20.4.1 Regular Verb Inflection 20.4.1 Regular Verb Inflection
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20.4.2 Resultative Verb Inflection 20.4.2 Resultative Verb Inflection
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20.4.3 A-not-A Verb Inflection 20.4.3 A-not-A Verb Inflection
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20.5 Noun Inflection 20.5 Noun Inflection
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Notes Notes
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References References
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20 Morphology: Morphemes in Chinese
Get accessPackard, Jerome is Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Chinese word structure, Chinese psycholinguistics, and Chinese language acquisition and pedagogy. His current research interests include sentence processing in native Mandarin speakers and learners of Mandarin as a second language, and reading acquisition by Chinese children.
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Published:05 May 2015
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Abstract
This chapter describes the morphological structure of words in Mandarin Chinese. Word is defined as a syntactically free form, that is, a form that can stand independently in a syntactic slot. Most words in Chinese consist of one or two morphemes. Single-morpheme words are termed simple, while words consisting of two or more morphemes are termed complex. Morphemes in Chinese undergo virtually no morphophonemic alternation, that is, they retain their individual phonological shapes when they appear together with other morphemes in a word. Chinese has four morpheme types: content word, function word, bound root, and affix.The four morpheme types combine to yield the following four complex word types: compound, bound root word, derived wordand inflected word.
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