Chapter 6 - Morphology

Question 1

Morphology

Answer 1

The study of forms, study of all basic elements (morphemes) used in a language.

Question 2

Morphemes

Answer 2

“Minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function”. Basic elements. Talks, talker, talking all consist of element talk and element -s/-er/-ing.

Question 3

Free morpheme

Answer 3

Can stand by themselves as free words.

Question 4

Bound morpheme

Answer 4

Cannot stand by themselves. Affixes (prefix and suffix). Re-, -ist, -s etc.

Question 5

STem

Answer 5

Free morphemes are known as stem when they are attached to a bound morpheme.

Question 6

Bound stem

Answer 6

Some words have no stem that has a meaning in English. For instance words borrowed from latin. Receive, reduce, repeat consist of re- as bound morpheme and -ceive etc as bound stems.

Question 7

Lexical morpheme

Answer 7

Free morpheme can consist of 2 categories and lexical is one. Words that carry the content of the message. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs. Open class of words, easy to add.

Question 8

Functional morpheme

Answer 8

articles, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns. Almost never new ones added.

Question 9

Derivational morpheme

Answer 9

Affixes (bound morphemes) can be divided and derivational is one. Is used to make new words or words with different word with of a new grammatical category. Ex. Boy-ish. In contrast to inflectional.

Question 10

Inflectional morpheme

Answer 10

Affixes (bound morphemes) can be divided and inflectional is the other one. Not used to create new words, shows plural or not, past tense or not, comparative or possessive forms. Jim’s, Sisters, laughing, been.

Question 11

Morph

Answer 11

An actual form used as part of a word, representing one version of a morpheme.

Question 12

12. Allomorph:

Answer 12

The three allomorphs of plural is /-s/, /-z/, /-(schwa)z/-