Final Flashcards
What is greek allomorphy?
Morpheme- “an” = not
an- before vowels or h
a- before all other consonants
What is latin vowel weakening?
Vowels (especially a and e) get changed when prefixes push them further back in a word.
Ex: fac- fa’c’tor, infe’c’t, def’i’cient
What is ablaut?
ancient process where a change in stem vowel sound signals some grammatical change. /e/ becomes “o” or nothing
Ex: ‘gen’etics, ‘gon’ad, pre’gn’ant
What is umlaut?
process used before Old English involving a change in vowel quality caused by inflectional endings added to roots. The inflectional ending was then lost only leaving the changed vowel on the main morph.
Ex: Mann –> Menn-iz
Whats is nasal fixation?
certain morphs may have a nasal inserted into the root.
Greek/Latin “s”?
Morphs that begin with ‘s’ in latin meaning the same as greek words that start with ‘h’.
Ex: ‘h’emi–’s’emi
What is Suppletion?
multiple morphs of one word that don’t look like each other, its because they got smooshed together from two original words.
Ex: ‘went’ is the past tense of ‘wend’.
lexical semantics?
the study of word meanings
sentential semantics?
the study of meanings of phases and sentences.
pragmatics?
the study of how context and situation affect meaning.
antonym?
opposite in meaning but only in some component of their meaning. (complementary pairs- if its not A its B)
Ex: black and white.
relational opposites?
have symmetry in their meaning.
Ex: buy/sell, parent/child
gradable pairs?
More of one means less of the other.
Ex: tall/short, young/old
whats is polysemy?
when you get multiple meanings/words from a single word.
Homonym? (homo=same nym=name)
Words from completely different sources that through sounds changes accidentally end up sounding the same.
Ex: bat (animal) bat (wooden stick)
