Chapter 6

Question 1

morphology

Answer 1

the study of forms

Question 2

morphemes

Answer 2

a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function

Question 3

free morphemes

Answer 3

morphemes that can stand by themselves

Question 4

bound morphemes

Answer 4

morphemes that cannot stand alone (all affixes are bound morphemes)

Question 5

stems

Answer 5

basic word used with bound morphemes

Question 6

bound stems

Answer 6

morphemes that have a bound morpheme at the beginning but are not separate words (re-ceive)

Question 7

lexical morphemes

Answer 7

free morphemes; ordinary nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that carry the content of the messages we convey, can be added new to a language, open class of words

Question 8

functional morphemes

Answer 8

free morphemes; articles, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, usually not newly added to a language, so closed class of words

Question 9

derivational morphemes

Answer 9

bound forms that make new words or make words of a different grammatical category from the stem

Question 10

inflectional morphemes

Answer 10

don’t produce new words in language, indicate the grammatical function of a word (ONLY plural-singular, tense, comparative & possessive form)

Question 11

morph

Answer 11

string that cannot be broken down into smaller constituents that have a lexicogrammatical function

Question 12

allomorph

Answer 12

morph that has a unique set of grammatical or lexical features

Question 13

reduplication

Answer 13

repeating all or part of a form