Grammar - Morphology

Question 1

Root

Answer 1

A morpheme in a word that gives the word its principle meaning.

Question 2

Stem

Answer 2

Any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which inflectional affix can be added.

Question 3

Free

Answer 3

A stand-alone word.

Question 4

Bound

Answer 4

A word element that cannot stand alone as a word, including both prefixes and suffixes.

Question 5

Prefix

Answer 5

Affixes added to the beginning of a base word to slightly change its meaning.

Question 6

Affix

Answer 6

A letter or group of letters which is added to either the beginning or the end of a word to form a different word with a different meaning.

Question 7

Suffix

Answer 7

One or more letters added to the end of a base word to change its conjugation, word type, or other grammar properties like plurality.

Question 8

Infix

Answer 8

An affix inserted inside a word stem.

Question 9

Inflectional

Answer 9

Used to create a variant form of a word in order to signal grammatical information without changing the meanings of words.

Question 10

Derivational

Answer 10

Characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base.

Question 11

Morphological Over-Generalisation

Answer 11

Use of a sound in a wider range than permitted by the adult language.

Question 12

Affixation

Answer 12

The process of adding an affix to a word to create either a different form of that word or a new word with a different meaning.

Question 13

Abbreviation

Answer 13

A shortened form of a word or phrase.

Question 14

Shortening

Answer 14

The dropping of the latter part of a word to produce a new and shorter word of the same meaning.

Question 14

Compounding

Answer 14

When two or more words are combined together to form a new word.

Question 15

Blending

Answer 15

Joining the beginning of one word and the end of another to make a new word with a new meaning.

Question 16

Backformation

Answer 16

The process of forming a new word by removing actual or supposed affixes from another word.

Question 17

Conversion of Word Class

Answer 17

A word-formation process that assigns an existing word to a different word class, part of speech, or syntactic category.

Question 18

Initialism

Answer 18

An abbreviation consisting of the first letters of each word in the name of something, pronounced as separate letters.

Question 19

Acronym

Answer 19

An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word.

Question 20

Contraction

Answer 20

When two words are shortened in form and are put together to form one new word.