This lecture introduces students to the field of Morphology. The main headlines of this first part are as follows:
-Types of words
-Definition of morpheme
-Bound and free morphemes
-Main steps in morphological analysis (Phonemic representation, Isolation of affixes, Alternation rules)
-Affixes
-Word coinage
References:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linguistics-Oxford-Introduction-Language-Study/dp/0194372065/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385018913&sr=1-3&keywords=linguistics+widdowson
-http://www.youtube.com/LinguisticsMarburg
-Other books mentioned in the first lecture of this course
-http://linguistics.online.uni-marburg.de/