File 4 Flashcards
Affix
Bound morpheme that attaches to a stem
Affixation
Process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes
Agglutinating Language
The putting together of morphemes
Allomorph
One set of nondistinctive realizations of the same phoneme
Alternation
In phonology, difference between two 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 one or more distinct linguistic expression.
Analytic Language
Type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequences 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 words 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.
Determiner
The name of a lexical category and syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the, a, this, all, etc
Form
The structure or shape of any particular linguistic item from individual segments to string words
Free morpheme
Can stand alone as a word