Glossary. Week 2 Cheat Sheet by Nargiza

Lexical morphemes - words that have meaning by themselves (boy, food, door)

Gramma­­tical morphemes - words that function to specify the relati­­onship between one lexical morpheme and another (at, in, on, -ed, -s)

Synchronic lingui­­stics is the study of language at a particular point in time.

Diachronic lingui­­stics is the study of the history or evolution of language.