Carnie Chapter 2

Question 0

Derivational morphemes

Answer 0

Affixes - make a word a particular category

Question 1

Distributional criteria

Answer 1

Determining a part of speech not based on meaning but it’s distribution

Question 2

Suffix

Answer 2

Part of word added to the ending to create a new word

Question 3

Prefix

Answer 3

Added to the beginning of the word to create a new word

Question 4

Inflectional morphemes

Answer 4

Affixes added that don’t change word category but are generally for a particular category

Question 5

Syntactic distribution

Answer 5

What other words appear near the word decides the category

Question 6

Nouns

1. Derivational suffixes
2. Inflectional suffixes
3. Syntactic distribution

Answer 6

1. -ment, -ness -(t)ion
2. -s, -es
3. After determiners, after adjectives, follow prepositions, subject of sentence

Question 7

Verbs

1. Derivational suffixes
2. Inflectional suffixes
3. Syntactic Distribution

Answer 7

1. -ate, -ise
2. -ing, -ed, -en
3. Follow auxiliaries, follow subject and adverbs

Question 8

Adjectives

1. Derivational suffixes
2. Inflectional suffixes
3. Syntactic Distribution

Answer 8

1. -ing, -ive, -able, -al
2. -er, -en, -ed un-, -ly
3. Between determiner and noun, follow auxiliary, negated with un-

Question 9

Adverbs

1. Derivational suffixes
2. Inflectional suffixes
3. Syntactic Distribution

Answer 9

1. -ly
2. Follow word more
3. Not between determiner and noun, not after verb,

Question 10

Open class parts of speech

Answer 10

Can add new words (neologisms)

Question 11

Closed parts of speech

Answer 11

Can’t add new words

Prepositions

Question 12

Lexical parts of speech

Answer 12

Provide content of meaning

Question 13

Functional parts of speech

Answer 13

Provide grammatical information

Question 14

Prepositions P

Answer 14

Appear before noun phrases

Place the noun in space or time

To, under, over

Question 15

Determiners D

Answer 15

Articles, quantifies, numerals, deficits, possessive pronouns

A, the, she, three, those, which

Question 16

Conjunctions Conj

Answer 16

Words that connect two or more phrases together on an equal level

And, or, neither

Question 17

Complementisers C

Answer 17

Connects structures together but they embed in clause inside another

That, for, if

Question 18

Tense T

Answer 18

Auxiliaries, modals

Have/has/had am/is/are/was/were do/does/did to
Should, would, shall, can, might

Question 19

Subcategories

Answer 19

Smaller groups of speech identified by features in larger categories of parts of speech

+/- category of speech

Question 20

Subcategories of Nouns

Answer 20

+/- Singular or plural
+/- count or mass
+/- proper or common
+/- pronoun or lexical noun

Question 21

Subcategories of Verbs

Answer 21

Argument structure

Question 22

Intransitive
Transitive 1
Transitive 2
Ditransitive 1
Ditransitive 2
Ditransitive 3
Ditransitive 4

Answer 22

V[NP\_\_]
V[NP\_\_NP]
V[NP\_\_{NP/CP}]
V[NP\_\_NP NP]
V[NP\_\_NP PP]
V[NP\_\_NP {NP/PP}]
V[NP\_\_NP {NP/PP/CP}]