Chapter 4 -Morphology Flashcards
Affix
bound morpheme that attaches to a stem
Affixation
process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes
Agglutinating Language
a type of synthetic language in which the relationships between words in a sentence are indicated primarily by bound morphemes
Allomorph
one of a set of nondistinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same functional are phonetically similar
Alternation
in phonology, a difference between 2 or more phonetic forms that one might expect to be related
Ambiguity
the phenomenon by which a single linguistic form can be the form of more than one distinct linguistic expression
Analytic Language
type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequence of these free morphemes
Bound Morpheme
morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes, never existing as a word itself
Bound Root
morpheme that has some associated basic meaning, but that is unable to stand alone as a word in its own right
Closed Lexical Category
lexical category in which the members are fairly rigidly established and additions are made very rarely and only over long periods of time
Compounding
word formation process by which are formed through combining two or more independent words
Conjunction
a lexical category that consists of function words such as and, but, however, etc
Content Morpheme
morpheme that carries semantic content
Content Word
a word whose primary purpose is to contribute semantic content to the phrase in which it occurs
Derivation
in phonology, a process by which an underlying form is changed as phonological rules act upon it
Determiner
the name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the, a, this, all, etc.
Form
the structure or shape of any particular linguistic item, form individual segments to strings of words
Free Morpheme
a morpheme that can stand alone as a word
Function Morpheme
morpheme that provides information about the grammatical relationships between words in a sentence
Function Word
a word that has little semantic content and whose primary purpose is to indicate grammatical relationships between other words within a phrase
Fusional Language
a type of synthetic language in which the relationships between the words in a sentence are indicated by bound morphemes that are difficult to separate form the stem
Hierarchical Structure
the dominance relationship among morphemes in a word, or among constituents in a phrase
Homophony
2 or more morphemes or nonphrasal linguistics expressions have the same form
Incorporation
morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in a polysynthetic language
Infix
type of bound morpheme thats inserted in the middle of the stem
Inflection
a morphological process whereby the form of a word is modified to indicate some grammatically relevant info
input
linguistic form before the application of a rule or a set of rules
Lexical category
class of words grouped together based on morphological properties
Lexicon
a mental repository of linguistic info about words and other lexical expressions
Morpheme
smallest linguistics unit that has a meaning or grammatical function
Morphology
the study of how words are constructed out of morphemes
Open Lexical Category
lexical category into which new members are often introduced
Output
linguistic form obtained after an application of a rule or a set of rules
Partial Reduplication
morphological reduplication in which only part of a morpheme is reduplicated
Polysynthetic Language
a type of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships
Prefix
affix that attaches to the beginning stem
Preposition
name of lexical category and syntactic category that consists of phrase such as of, in, for, with, etc
Productive
describes a rule that can be applied in novel situations to produce novel grammatical forms
Pronoun
lexical category consists of I, she, us, etc
Reduplicant
morpheme or part of a morpheme that is repeated in reduplication
Reduplication
process of forming new words by doubling an entire word or part of a word
Root
free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes most semantic content to the word, and to which affixes can attach
Simultaneous Affix
an affix that is articulated at the same time as some other affix or affixes in a words stem; exists only in visual gestural languages
Stem
the base to which some affix is added
Suffix
affix that attaches to the end of a stem
Suppletion
morphological process between forms of a word wherein one form cannot be phonologically or morphologically derived from the other
