Chapter 6

Question 1

Morpheme

Answer 1

A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function

Question 2

Bound morpheme

Answer 2

A morpheme such as un- or -ed that cannot stand alone and must be attached to another form (e.g. undressed)

Question 3

Free morpheme

Answer 3

A morpheme that can stand by itself as a single word

Question 4

Derivational morpheme

Answer 4

A bound morpheme such as -ish used to make new words or words of a different grammatical category (e.g. boyish) in contrast to an inflectional morpheme

Question 5

Functional morpheme

Answer 5

A free morpheme that is used as a function word, such as a conjunction (and) or a preposition (in)

Question 6

Lexical morpheme

Answer 6

A free morpheme that is a content word such as a noun or verb

Question 7

Stem

Answer 7

The base form to which affixes are attached in the formation of words

Question 8

Inflectional morpheme

Answer 8

A bound morpheme used to indicate the grammatical function of a word, also called “inflection” (e.g. dogs, walked)

Question 9

Morphology

Answer 9

The analysis of the structure of words

Question 10

Allomorph

Answer 10

One of a closely related set of words

Question 11

Reduplication

Answer 11

The process of repeating all or part of a morph