File 4 Flashcards

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Affix

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Bound morpheme that attaches to a stem

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Affixation

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Process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes

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Agglutinating Language

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The putting together of morphemes

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Allomorph

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One set of nondistinctive realizations of the same phoneme

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Alternation

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In phonology, difference between two or more phonetic forms that one might expect to be related.

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Ambiguity

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The phenomenon by which a single linguistic form can be the form of one or more distinct linguistic expression.

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Analytic Language

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Type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequences of these free morphemes.

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Bound Morpheme

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Morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes. Never existing as a word itself

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Bound Root

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Morpheme that has some associated basic meaning but that is unable to stand alone as a word in its own right.

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Closed Lexical Category

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Lexical category in which the members are fairly rigidly established and additions are made very rarely and only over long periods of time

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Compounding

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Word formation process by which words are formed through combining two or more independent words

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Conjunction

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A lexical category that consists of function words such as and, but, however , etc

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Content Morpheme

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Morpheme that carries semantic content

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Content Word

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A word whose primary purpose is to contribute semantic content to the phrase in which it occurs

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Derivation

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In phonology, a process by which an underlying form is changed as phonological rules act upon.

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Determiner

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The name of a lexical category and syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the, a, this, all, etc

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Form

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The structure or shape of any particular linguistic item from individual segments to string words

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Free morpheme

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Can stand alone as a word

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Function morpheme

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Provides information about the grammatical relationships between words in a sentence

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Function Word

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A word that has little semantic content and whose primary purpose is to indicate grammatical relationships between other words within a phrase

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Fusional Language

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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 from the stem

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Hierarchical structure

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The dominance relationship among morphemes in a word or among constituents in a phrase

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Homophony

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The phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguists expressions happen tp have the same form

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Incorporation

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Morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in a polysynthetic language

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Infix

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The type of bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem

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Inflection

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A morphological process whereby the form of a word is modified to indicate some grammatically relevant information, such as person, number, tense, gender, etc

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Input

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The linguistic form before the application of a rule or a set of rules

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Lexical Category

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Class of words grouped together based on morphological properties.

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Lexicon

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A metal repository of linguistic information

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Morpheme

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Smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function

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Morphology

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The study of how words are constructed out of morphemes

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Open Lexical Category

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Lexical category into which new memebers are often introduced

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Output

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Linguistic form obtained after an application of a rule or set of rules

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Partial Reduplication

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Morphological reduplication in which only part of the morpheme is reduplicated

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Poly synthetic Language

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A type of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships

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Prefix

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Affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem

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Preposition

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The sense expressed by a sentence

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Productive

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Describes a rule that can be apply in novel situations to produce novel grammatical forms

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Pronoun

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I, she, us, etc

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Reduplicant

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Morpheme or part of morpheme that is repeated in reduplication

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Reduplication

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Process of forming new words by doubling entire word or part of the word

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Root

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Contributes most semantic content to the word

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Simultaneous Affix

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An affix that is articulated at the same time as some other affix

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Stem

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The base, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which some affix is added

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Suffix

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Attaches to the end of the stem

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Suppletion

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A morphological process between forms of a word wherein one form cannot be phonologically or morphologically derived from the other