Ch. 4 Morphology Vocabulary

Question 1

affix

Answer 1

an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning.

Question 2

affixation

Answer 2

is the act of adding something to something else.

Question 3

allomorph

Answer 3

any of the versions of a morpheme.

Question 4

alternation

Answer 4

the repeated occurrence of two things in turn.

Question 5

ambiguity

Answer 5

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation.

Question 6

analytic language

Answer 6

an analytic language is a language that conveys grammatical relationships without using inflectional morphemes.

Question 7

bound root

Answer 7

a bound root is a root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme.

Question 8

closed lexical category

Answer 8

a linguistic category of words generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behavior of the lexical item in question ,such as noun or verb.

Question 9

conjuction

Answer 9

a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.

Question 10

content morpheme

Answer 10

a functional morpheme ( as opposed to a content morpheme ) is a morpheme which simply modifies the meaning of the word

Question 11

derivation

Answer 11

the obtaining or developing of something from a source or origin.

Question 12

determiner

Answer 12

a person or thing that determines or decides something.

Question 13

form

Answer 13

the visible shape or configuration of something.

Question 14

functional morpheme

Answer 14

a functional morpheme is a morpheme which simplifies modifies the meaning of the word.

Question 15

function word

Answer 15

a word whose purpose is more to signal grammatical relationship than the lexical meaning of a sentence.

Question 16

hierarchical structure

Answer 16

hierarchy is a way to structure an organization using different levels of authority and a vertical link.

Question 17

homophony

Answer 17

homophonic an example of something homophonic is a piece of music with cords.

Question 18

incorporation

Answer 18

the inclusion of something as part of a whole.

Question 19

infix

Answer 19

implant or insert firmly in something.

Question 20

inflection

Answer 20

a change in the form of a word to express a grammatical function or attribute such a tense .

Question 21

input

Answer 21

what is put, taken in, or operated on by any process or system.

Question 22

lexical category

Answer 22

a lexical category is a synatic category for elemants that are part of the lexicon of a language.

Question 23

lexicon

Answer 23

the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.

Question 24

morpheme

Answer 24

a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided.

Question 25

morphology

Answer 25

the study of the forms of things.

Question 26

output

Answer 26

the amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry.

Question 27

partial reduplication

Answer 27

partial reduplication involves a reduplication of only the part of the word.

Question 28

polysynthetic language

Answer 28

in linguistic typology, polysynthetic language are highly synthetic languages.

Question 29

prefix

Answer 29

a word, letter, or number placed before another.

Question 30

preposition

Answer 30

a word governing and usually preceding.

Question 31

productive

Answer 31

producing or able to produce large amounts of goods.

Question 32

pronoun

Answer 32

a word that can function itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse.

Question 33

reduplicant

Answer 33

the reduplicated segment in a word resulting from a reduplication process.

Question 34

reduplication

Answer 34

reduplication is a word-formation process in which meaning is expressed by repeating all or part of a word.

Question 35

root

Answer 35

the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to support typically underground conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibers.

Question 36

simultaneous affix

Answer 36

existing or taking place at the same place simultaneous events

Question 37

stem

Answer 37

the main body or stalk of a plant or shrub, typically rising above but occasionally subterranean.

Question 38

suffix

Answer 38

a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative

Question 39

suppletion

Answer 39

the occurrence of an unrelated form to fill a gap in a conjugation (e.g. went as the past tense of go )

Question 40

agglutinating language

Answer 40

type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination. Words may contain different morphemes to determine their meanings, but all of these morphemes remain, in every aspect, unchanged after their unions.