Syntax

Part 1 of a brief overview of lexical categories, phrase structure rules, and syntactic tree structures.

Part 2 of a brief overview of lexical categories, phrase structure rules, and syntactic tree structures.

Part 3 of a brief overview of lexical categories, phrase structure rules, and syntactic tree structures.

Allomorphy

How do our words change on their way out of our mouths? What kinds of rules cover their variation? In this video, allomorphy is explained: the way our morphemes change, the types of variation we find in their pronunciation, and the methods that allow us to decide what the underlying morpheme is.

Types of Word Formation

Inflection vs Word Formation

Lexemes & Word Forms

What are lexemes and how are they related to actual word-forms? In just over a minute, Prof. Handke explains the structure and the use of lexemes and defines terms such as paradigm and word-family.

Introduction of Morphology

Words are often made up of different parts with their own meanings. These parts are called morphemes, and the process of cutting words up into different parts is called morphology. This video explains the words stem, prefix and suffix for describing morphemes, and gives some tips for how and why it is important to find morphemes in one's language.

Morphological Typology