Lesson 5: Morphology

Question 1

morphology

Answer 1

the study of words

Question 2

morpheme

Answer 2

the smallest linguistic unit that has meaning

Question 3

free morphemes

Answer 3

can stand alone as a complete word

Question 4

content/lexical morpheme

free morpheme

Answer 4

has a lexical meaning
(ex: nouns, verbs, adjectives)

Question 5

functional morpheme

free morpheme

Answer 5

serves some grammatical purpose
(ex: articles, pronouns, conjunctions)

Question 6

bound morpheme

Answer 6

must be affixed to a free morpheme (root)

Question 7

inflectional morpheme

bound morpheme

Answer 7

grammatical
(ex: plural -s, progressive -ing, comparative -er)

Question 8

derivational morpheme

bound morpheme

Answer 8

helps derive new word categories and often changes the meaning and part of speech
(ex: re-, -un, -ly)

Question 9

affix

Answer 9

any morpheme that attaches to a root (bound morpheme)

Question 10

prefix

Answer 10

affix that attaches before the root

Question 11

suffix

Answer 11

affix that attaches after the root

Question 12

infix

Answer 12

affix that attaches inside the root

Question 13

circumfix

Answer 13

affix that surrounds the root both initially and finally