Chapter 4

Question 1

one or more sounds or letters occurring as a bond form attached to the begging middle of a word, base, or phrase or inserted within a word or base and serving to produce a derivative.

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Affix

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is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme, an affix, is attached to a morphological base. … Affixes mark derivational (-er in teach-er) and inflectional (-s in teacher-s) changes, and affixation is the most common strategy that human languages employ for derivation of new words and word forms.

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Affixation

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a grammatical process in which words are composed of a sequence of morphemes (meaningful word elements), each of which represents not more than a single grammatical category.

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agglutinating language

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one of a set of forms that morpheme may take in different contexts
example- // the s of cats, the -en of oxen

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allomorph

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the occurrence of different allomorphs or allophones

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alternation

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ambiguity

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a word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways: an ambiguous word or expression

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analytic language

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characterized by the use of function words rather than inflectional forms to express grammatical realtionships.

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bound morpheme-

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is a word element that cannot stand alone as a word, including both prefixes and suffixes.

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bound root

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is a root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme. Permit, submit ,admit

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closed lexical

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category- rarely acquire new members. Closed lexical categories include pronouns, determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions.

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compounding

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is the process of combining two words

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conjunction

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• is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions.

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A content morpheme

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or contentive morpheme is a root that forms the semantic core of a major class word. Content morphemes have lexical denotations that are not dependent on the context or on other morphemes.

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Content words

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are words that have meaning. They can be compared to grammatical words, which are structural. Nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs are usually content word

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Derivation

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is the formation of a new word or inflectable stem from another word or stem. It typically occurs by the addition of an affix.

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Determiner

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-a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.

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can be described as “what a word, phrase, or clause looks like.” Traditional grammars refer to grammatical forms as “parts of speech.”

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form

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(or word element) that can stand alone as a word. It is also called an unbound morpheme or a free-standing morpheme

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free morpheme

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functional morpheme

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(as opposed to a content morpheme) is a morpheme which simply modifies the meaning of a word, rather than supplying the root meaning. Functional morpheme are generally considered a closed class, which means that new functional morphemes cannot normally be created.

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words include determiners, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, modals, qualifiers, and question words.

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Function

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fusional language

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is a language in which one form of a morpheme can simultaneously encode several meanings. Discussion: Fusional languages may have a large number of morphemes in each word, but morpheme boundaries are difficult to identify because the morphemes are fused together.

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structure refers to a company’s chain of command, typically from senior management and executives to general employees.

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hierarchical structure

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Homophony

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is when a set of words are pronounced identically, but have different meanings.

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incorporation

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is a phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object (object incorporation) or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.

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infix

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is a word element (a type of affix) that can be inserted within the base form of a word—rather than at its beginning or end—to create a new word or intensify meaning

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formerly flection or accidence, in linguistics, the change in the form of a word.

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Inflection

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Input

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Any written or spoken language that the learner encounters that may be used to construct linguistic knowledge. “Good” input is said to be comprehensible and meaning-bearing

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of words (more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb.

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A linguistic category

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Lexicon

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the special vocabulary of a particular author, field of study, etc.
Morpheme- is the smallest unit in a language that still has meaning.

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Morphology

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is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.

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open lexical category

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is open if the new word and the original word belong to the same category.

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output

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refers to speaking and writting

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Partial reduplication

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involves a reduplication of only part of the word. For example, Marshallese forms words meaning ‘to wear X’ by reduplicating the last consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) sequence of a base.

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polysynthetic language

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• is a very synthetic language, which is linguistic terminology for a language where there is a high morpheme-to-word ratio.

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prefix

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is an affix that is placed before the stem of a word.

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Prepositions

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and postpositions, together called adpositions, are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semantic roles.

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productivity

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is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation.

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pronoun

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is a word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase. It is a particular case of a pro-form.

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reduplication

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is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or … A reduplicant can copy from either the left edge of a word (left-to- right copying) or from the right edge (right-to-left copying)

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is a word that does not have a prefix in front of the word or a suffix at the end of the word.

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root

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is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.

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affix

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is a part of a word used with slightly different meanings and would depend on the morphology of the language in question.

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stem

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suffix

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is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.suffix

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suppletion

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is the use of two or more phonetically distinct roots for different forms of the same word, such as the adjective