Chapter 1

Question 1

Analytic language

Answer 1

A language that uses little morphology

Question 2

Functionalist orientation

Answer 2

An approach to morphological research that emphasizes system- external explanation

communication is the primary purpose of language. Therefore, general phonological, morphosyntactic and semantic phenomena are thought of as being motivated by the needs of people to communicate successfully with each other.

Question 3

Generality

Answer 3

A common was of measuring the elegance of a description, according to which fewer descriptions capturing a larger portion ofthe data each is deemed more general/elegant than more descriptions capturing a small portion of the data each

Question 4

Generative orientation

Answer 4

an approach to morphological research that
seeks to discover the principles of universal grammar and emphasizes this mode of explanation

Question 5

Synthetic / polysynthetic language

Answer 5

A language that makes fair, or extensive, use of morphology