Midterm Vocabulary

Question 1

abbreviation made of initial letters read as an ordinary word

Answer 1

acronym

Question 2

adding a morpheme to the root

Answer 2

affixation

Question 3

change in morpheme shape, same morpheme meaning in complimentary distribution

Answer 3

allomorph

Question 4

forming a shorter, simpler word from a word perceived to be complex

Answer 4

backformation

Question 5

a morpheme that needs a root or affix to exist

Answer 5

bound

Question 6

combining two roots

Answer 6

compounding

Question 7

when single morphemes have more than one role

Answer 7

fusional

Question 8

meaningful constituent of words that can be identified

Answer 8

morpheme

Question 9

non-linear morphological process (Arabic, Hebrew)

Answer 9

non-concatenative morphology

Question 10

a set of words with a common root or affix

Answer 10

paradigm

Question 11

part of the base is copied and attached to the base

Answer 11

reduplication

Question 12

conditions that define the domain of a rule; some affixes select only particular bases

Answer 12

selectional criteria

Question 13

change is a process (vowel lowering, final voicing, etc)

Answer 13

stem modification

Question 14

between isolating and polysynthetic, a few morphemes per word

Answer 14

synthetic

Question 15

lexeme, abstract concept representing meaning

Answer 15

word

Question 16

morpheme that must attach to a base and cannot exist alone

Answer 16

affix

Question 17

affix attached to the beginning of a root

Answer 17

prefix

Question 18

affix attached to the end of a root

Answer 18

suffix

Question 19

affix attached to the middle of a root

Answer 19

infix

Question 20

affix attached to both beginning and end of a root

Answer 20

circumfix

Question 21

each morpheme only has one job/function

Answer 21

agglutinating

Question 22

changes in tone, stress, or nasalization

Answer 22

autosegmental variation

Question 23

stem created by combining parts of two other lexeme stems (smog)

Answer 23

blend

Question 24

between words and affixes; can’t stand along but are free to move around various word classes

Answer 24

clitic

Question 25

morpheme that an exist alone

Answer 25

free

Question 26

one morpheme per word

Answer 26

isolating

Question 27

language universals, system for grouping languages by similarities

Answer 27

morphological typology

Question 28

words that sound like what they represent

Answer 28

onomatopoeia

Question 29

words with many morphemes

Answer 29

polysynthetic

Question 30

essential part of a word

Answer 30

root

Question 31

the base of an inflected word form

Answer 31

stem

Question 32

deleting a segment from the base

Answer 32

subtractive morphology

Question 33

shortening a word by one or more syllables

Answer 33

truncation (clipping)

Question 34

changing part of speech without doing anything to the word

Answer 34

zero derivation (conversion)