METALANGUAGE : Morphology & Lexicology

Question 1

Word Class: Nouns

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Question 2

Word Class: Verbs

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Question 3

Word Class: Auxiliary Verbs

Answer 3

Precede verbs and are used to change meaning of the main verb

Question 4

Word Class: Modal Verbs

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Question 5

Word Class: Adjectives

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Question 6

Word Class: Adverbs

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Question 7

Word Class: Prepositions

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Question 8

Word Class: Pronouns

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Question 9

Word Class: Conjunctions

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Question 10

Word Class: Determiners

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Question 11

Word Class: Interjections

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Question 12

Function Words

Answer 12

A word that carries grammatical meaning only

e.g pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions

Question 13

Content Words

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Question 14

Affix

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A bound morpheme added to the root of a new word. Also can express grammatical relationship such as plural
e.g ‘-un’ and ‘-able’ as in un+mistake+able, plural: cat+s

Question 15

Affix: Prefix

Answer 15

An affix that occurs before a root word

e.g sub-standard, pre-cooked, un-believable

Question 16

Affix: Suffix

Answer 16

An affix that occurs after a root word

e.g cooked-ed, run-ing, quick-ly

Question 17

Affix: Infix

Answer 17

An affix that occurs in the root word. It is usually only found in a root word
e.g fan-bloody-tastic

Question 18

Inflection

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Question 19

Derivation

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Question 20

Morphemes

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Question 21

Morpheme: Root

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Question 22

Morpheme: Bound

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Question 23

Morpheme: Free

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Question 24

Suffixation

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Question 25

Blends

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Question 26

Acronyms

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Question 27

Initialisms

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Question 28

Shortenings

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Question 29

Compounding

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Question 30

Contractions

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Question 31

Collocations

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Question 32

Neologisms

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Question 33

Word Classes

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Question 34

Morphology and Lexicology

Answer 34

The study of words and how they are formed