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Inflection Flashcards

1
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What is inflection

A

It alters a word. It does not change syntactic category

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2
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Which one is most productive between inflection and derivation

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Inflection

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3
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In which way is inflection productive

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It attaches to almost all words of relevant syntactic category. It fills in a paradigm.

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4
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What is derivation

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Creation of a new word

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5
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Does derivation change the syntactic category

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Yes

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6
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Why is derivation somewhat productive

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Because it only attaches to some words of the relevant syntactic category.

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7
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What is the meaning and syntactic category of s

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Noun, plural

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8
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What is the meaning and syntactic category of ‘s

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Noun, possession

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9
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What is the meaning and syntactic category of s

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V, 3rd sing

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10
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What is the meaning and syntactic category of ed

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V, past

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11
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What is the meaning and syntactic category of en-ed

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V, perfect

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12
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What is the meaning and syntactic category of ing

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V, progressive

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13
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What is the meaning and syntactic category of er

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Adj, comparative

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14
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What is the meaning and syntactic category of est

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Adj, superlative

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15
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Can inflection change a the syntactic category?

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No

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16
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acid to acidic- is that inflection or derivation

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derivation

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17
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What is Semantic transparency

A

How predictable a whole is from its parts.

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18
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T or F; all morphology is compositional

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T

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19
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What happens when there is no transparency

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The word is not compositional

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20
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What do we call when morphology is completely transparent

A

Inflectional

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21
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What do we call when the morphology is opaque

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Derivational

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22
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Note

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All morphology is at least a little transparent

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23
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What attaches first, inflection affixes or derivational affixes?

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derivational affixes always closer to root.

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24
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Can a word have more than one inflectional affix

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No

25
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Inflectional are always placed where

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Always attaches last, suffix. highest one in the tree

26
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prefix is where?

A

before

27
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Where are infixes

A

Inside a base

28
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Is [re] in non-re-fund-able an infix?

A

No its not inside the base

29
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What is at least one English infix

A

Expletive

30
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What does an expletive mean

A

emotional curse word or rude phrase.

31
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Are the expletive infixes phonologically conditioned ?

A

Yes. They are inserted before stressed syllables.

32
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If a word has an initial stress how the infix act?

A

like a prefix

33
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Prefix and afix are concatenative or non-concatenative?

A

Concatenative, attaching affix to base. Represented by morphological tree.

34
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What is non-concatenative morphology?

A

Altering the base (also known as internal change). Infixation - can’t be represented in morphological trees.

35
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What is Ablaut. give example

A

vowel alteration that marks a morphological contrast. Run - ran.

36
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Are ablaut concatenative or non-concatenative.

A

Non-concatenative

37
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does ablaut consist in adding morphemes?

A

No. Alternating vowels are not morphemes (goose - geese) goose is one morpheme on its own, oo doesnt mean singular

38
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Is Ablaut common in other languages

A

Yes -latin, icelandic

39
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What are Bound roots

A

roots that only survive in complex words, dont stand on their own.

40
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Which class of english affixes is fully productive

A

Class 2

40
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Examples of bound roots

A

Un[kempt] , cranberry

40
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Roots that were borrowed in complex words

A

ceive - receive, deceive, conceive (from latin ‘take’)
mit - permit, submit, commit
(from latin ‘send’)

40
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Class 1 of affixes are borrowed from where

A

Latin, Greek, French

41
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Class 2 are inherited from where

A

germanic - native

41
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What does class 1 do

A

It changes the sound of segment of the base; part - partial, revise- revision, product - productive

42
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Class 2 are phonologically neutral meaning that

A

they don’t do anything to the phonology of the base

43
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Class one or two go on much wider range of words and new words

A

Class 2

44
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What is the order of classes

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Class one closer to the root rather than class 2. Classe 2 cannot be between root and class 1.

45
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Can we put two class 2 affix de suite?

A

Yes; fear-less-ness

46
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Can we put two class 1 affixes de suite?

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Yes - relational

47
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Can we put class 2 followed by class 1

A

No

48
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Can we put class 1 followed by class 2

A

Yes

49
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Are class 1 and class 2 inflectional or derivational

A

derivational

50
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what are the class 1 affixes

A

-ity -y -ize -ion - ive -(i)al

51
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English prefer preffixes or suffixes

A

suffixes

52
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What are the class 2 affix

A

-ful, -ness, -less, -ly, -er, -ish

53
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What is the order of inflectional and derivational affixes. What’s closer to the base

A

Derivational affixes closer to root than inflectional affixes.

54
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