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ENG 211 - Linguistics > Ch. 4 Morphology Vocabulary > Flashcards

Ch. 4 Morphology Vocabulary Flashcards

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Affix

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bound morpheme that attaches to a stem

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Affixation

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process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes

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Agglutinating language

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

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allomorph

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

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alternation

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

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ambiguity

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

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analytic language

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

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input

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linguistic form before application of a rule or set of rules

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lexical category

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

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open lexical category

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lexical categories into which new members are often introduced

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compounding

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

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conjunction

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

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content morpheme

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morpheme that carries semantic content

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content word

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

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reduplication

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

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determiner

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

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form

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structure and shape of linguistic item

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function word

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

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fusional language

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

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infix

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

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productive

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

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simultaneous affix

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

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homophony

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

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incorporation

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

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lexicon

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mental repository of linguistic formation

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morpheme

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smallest linguistic unit that has meaning or grammatical function

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morphology

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the study of how words are constructed out of morphemes

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pronoun

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

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reduplicant

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morpheme or part of morpheme that is repeated in reduplication

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root

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

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stem

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

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suppletion

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

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preposition

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

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bound morpheme

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morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes

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bound root

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

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closed lexical category

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lexical category in which new members are introduced

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derivation

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process of creating words out of another word

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determiner

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

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function morpheme

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morpheme that provides information about grammatical relationships between words

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hierarchical structure

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relationship among morphemes in a word or among phrases

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suffix

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affix that follows a stem

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suffix

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affix that follows a stem

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inflection

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

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output

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

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partial reduplication

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only a part of a morpheme is reduplicated

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polysythetic language

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

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prefix

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affix that precedes a stem

ENG 211 - Linguistics (7 decks)

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