What Kinds of Pieces Do We Use to Build Words? Derivational and Inflectional Morphology

How do we put our words together? What varieties of building blocks do we stack up to create bigger meanings? In this week's episode, we talk about derivational and inflectional morphology: what roles each of them play, how to tell them apart, and how differences in how we string them together can lead to ambiguity. This is Topic #72! This week's tag language: Estonian! Related episodes: What's the Smallest Unit of Meaning? Morphemes -    • Morphemes   How Do You Build a Word? Roots and Affixes -    • Roots and Affixes   Last episode: Up, Up, and Away: VPISH and Word Order -    • Where Do Subjects Start Out in Sentences? ...   Other of our morphology and syntax videos: Why Do Some Words Change So Much? Allomorphy -    • Allomorphy   How Do Languages Organize Their Words? Morphological Typologies -    • Systems of Morphemes   Find us on all the social media worlds: Tumblr:   / thelingspace   Twitter:   / thelingspace   Facebook:   / thelingspace   And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com/ ! You can also find our store at the website, https://thelingspace.storenvy.com/ Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-72/ We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally. Sources: This work was mainly derived from Mark Baker and Jonathan Bobaljik's textbook / course notes, Introduction to Morphology. See you all in two weeks!