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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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Affix

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Either a prefix or suffix added to a root word

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Derivative

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A word created through affixation, but which has a different meaning than the root word.

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Inflextion

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The different grammatical forms of a word (created through affixation)

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Word family

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A root word plus its inflexitons and most common derivatives

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Affixation

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One way new words are formed, by adding affixes

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Compounding

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One way new words are formed, by joining two or more words together

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Blended

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One way new words are formed, by combining the parts of two or more words

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Conversion

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One way new words are formed, by changing a word from one part of speech to another

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Clipping

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One way new words are formed, by shortening an existing word

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Multi-word units

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Lexical chunks

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Sentence frame

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A lexical chunk upon which you can hang a sentence

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Lexeme

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A word or group of words that functions like a single word

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Homonyms

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Words that have the same form but different meanings

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Homophones

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Words that have the same sound but different spellings

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Homographs

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Words that have the same spelling but different sounds

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Polyseme

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A different but related meaning of a word

17
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Hyponyms

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Words that are related in kind

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Co-hyponyms

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Hyponymy whose relationship is in the same level in a hierarchy

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Superordinate

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A hyponym which is one level above another in a hierarchy

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Meronymy

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A relationship where one hyponym is a part of another

21
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Lexical field

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A set of lexical items which share a thematic relationship

22
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Word class

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There’s 8:

Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, determiner

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