Finegan Ch. 2

I find morphology to be totally fascinating, and also challenging.  But it's challenging in a good way... as in the kind of challenge I like!

The chapter covers a huge range of the morphological aspects of language, from semantics to inflections to initialisms.  I never knew that initialisms were not actually acronyms!  One of my favorite sections was the part about Latin.  I only took a year of Latin during my freshman year of college, but I loved it.  I think it's so cool that word order is almost completely irrelevant!  It amazes me that a language with so many inflectional rules could provide such syntactical freedom.  In that class, I learned that although word order didn't actually matter, at some point in history there was a "beautiful" or preferred way to put sentences together in Latin... with the verb at the end because it created a sense of suspense (apparently).  It also nicely eliminates confusion in meaning related to word order.