Ch. 4 Morphology Vocabulary

Question 1

Affix

Answer 1

bound morpheme that attaches to a stem

Question 2

Affixation

Answer 2

process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes

Question 3

Agglutinating language

Answer 3

synthetic language in which morphemes are joined together loosely. The relationship between words in a sentence are indicated by bound morphemes

Question 4

allomorph

Answer 4

one of a set on non-distinctive realization of a morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar

Question 5

alternation

Answer 5

morphological process that uses morpheme-internal modifications to make new words or morphological distinctions

Question 6

ambiguity

Answer 6

an occurrence in which a single linguistic form can be the form of more than one distinct linguistic expression

Question 7

analytic language

Answer 7

language in which most words consist of one morpheme ans sentences are composed of sequences of free morphemes

Question 8

input

Answer 8

linguistic form before application of a rule or set of rules

Question 9

lexical category

Answer 9

classes of words that differ i how other words can be constructed out of them

Question 10

open lexical category

Answer 10

lexical categories into which new members are often introduced

Question 11

compounding

Answer 11

process that forms new words by means of two or more independent words

Question 12

conjunction

Answer 12

lexical category that consists of function words such as and, but, however

Question 13

content morpheme

Answer 13

morpheme that carries semantic content

Question 14

content word

Answer 14

word that contributes semantic content to the phrase in which it occurs

Question 15

reduplication

Answer 15

process of forming new words by doubling either an entire free morpheme or part of it

Question 16

determiner

Answer 16

lexical and syntactic category consisting of expression such as the, a, this, all

Question 17

form

Answer 17

structure and shape of linguistic item

Question 18

function word

Answer 18

word that has little semantic content ans whose primary purpose is to indicate grammatical relationship between other words within a phrase

Question 19

fusional language

Answer 19

synthetic language in which words are formed by adding bound morphemes to stems

Question 20

infix

Answer 20

type of bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem

Question 21

productive

Answer 21

morpheme or rule that can be used to produce novel grammatical forms

Question 22

simultaneous affix

Answer 22

affix that is articulated at the same time as another affix or affixes in a word’s stem

Question 23

homophony

Answer 23

an occurrence in which two or more distinct morphemes happen to have the same form

Question 24

incorporation

Answer 24

process by which distinct semantic components are combined into single word in polysynthetic language

Question 25

lexicon

Answer 25

mental repository of linguistic formation

Question 26

morpheme

Answer 26

smallest linguistic unit that has meaning or grammatical function

Question 27

morphology

Answer 27

the study of how words are constructed out of morphemes

Question 28

pronoun

Answer 28

lexical category the consists of words such as I, she, us

Question 29

reduplicant

Answer 29

morpheme or part of morpheme that is repeated in reduplication

Question 30

root

Answer 30

free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes to most semantic content to the word

Question 31

stem

Answer 31

base that consists or one or more morphemes to which affix is added

Question 32

suppletion

Answer 32

morphological process between forms of words in which one form cannot be phonologically or morphologically derived from the other

Question 33

preposition

Answer 33

lexical category that consists of expression such as of, in, for, with

Question 34

bound morpheme

Answer 34

morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes

Question 35

bound root

Answer 35

morpheme that has some associated basic meaning but is unable to stand alone

Question 36

closed lexical category

Answer 36

lexical category in which new members are introduced

Question 37

derivation

Answer 37

process of creating words out of another word

Question 38

determiner

Answer 38

lexical and syntactic category that consists of expression such as the, a, this, all

Question 39

function morpheme

Answer 39

morpheme that provides information about grammatical relationships between words

Question 40

hierarchical structure

Answer 40

relationship among morphemes in a word or among phrases

Question 41

suffix

Answer 41

affix that follows a stem

Question 42

suffix

Answer 42

affix that follows a stem

Question 43

inflection

Answer 43

process in which the form of a word is modified to indicate some grammatically relevant information

Question 44

output

Answer 44

linguistic form obtained after application of a rule or a set of rules

Question 45

partial reduplication

Answer 45

only a part of a morpheme is reduplicated

Question 46

polysythetic language

Answer 46

language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationship

Question 47

prefix

Answer 47

affix that precedes a stem