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Morophology Flashcards

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affix

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found morpheme that attaches to stem

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affixation

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process of forming words by adding affixes to morpheme

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agglutinating language

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a type of synthetic language in which the relationships between words in a sentence are indicated primarily be bound morphemes. in agglutinating languages, morphemes are joined together loosely so that is easy codetermine where the boundaries between morphemes are.

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allomorph

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one of a set of non contrastive realization of the phoneme; an actual phonetic segment

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alternation

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the morphological process that uses morpheme-internal modification to make new worlds or morphological distinction

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ambiguity

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the phenomenon by which a single linguistic form can be the form of more than one distinct linguistic expression. the form that is shared by more than on expressions said to be ambiguous

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analytic language

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type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequences of these free morpheme. grammatical relationships are often indicated by word order. examples are Chinese and Vietnamese.

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bound morpheme

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morpheme that always attaches to there morphemes, never existing as a word itself.

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bound root

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morpheme that has some associated basic meaning but that is unable to stand alone as a word in its own right

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closed lexical category

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lexical category in which the members are fairly rigidly established and additions are made very rarely and over long periods of time

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compounding

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process of forming words by combing two or more independent words

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conjunction

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a lexical category that consists of function words such as and, but, however etc

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content morpheme

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morpheme that carries semantic content as opposed to merely performing a grammatical function

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content word

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a words whose primary purpose is to contribute semantics content to the phrase in which it occurs. all free content morpheme are content words

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derivation

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a morphological process that changes a words lexical category or its meaning in some predictable way

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determiner

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the name of a lexical category and syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the, a, this, all, eat. syntactically consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun to their right results in an expression of category phrase

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form

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the structure of shape of any particular linguistic item, from individual segments to strings of words

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free morpheme

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a morpheme tag can stand alone as a word.

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function morpheme

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morphemes that provides information about the grammatical relationships between words in a sentence

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function word

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a word that has little semantic content and whose primary purpose is to indicate grammatical relationships between other works within a phrase

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fusional language

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a type of synthetic language in which the relationships between the words in a sentences are indicated by bound morphemes that are difficult to separate from the stem

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hierarchical structure

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the dominance relationship among morphemes in a word or among constituents in a phrase

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homophony

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the phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or non phrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form i,.e sound the same

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incorporation

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morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single words in a polysynthetic language

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infix

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a type of bound morphemes that is inserted into the middle of the stem

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inflection

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a morphological process whereby the from of a word is modified to indicated some grammatically relevant information such as person, number, tense, gender, etc

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input

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the linguistic form before the application of a rule or set of rules

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lexical category

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class of words grouped together based on morphological properties. traditionally known as part of speech

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lexicon

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a mental repository of linguistic information about words and other lexical expressions, including their form and meaning and their morphological and syntactic properties.as a part of fa descriptive,not mental, grammar the lexicon is the representation of the mental lexicon, consisting the lexis entries the capture the relevant properties of lexical expressions

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morpheme

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smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function

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open lexical category

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lexical category into which new members are often introduced

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output

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the linguistic from obtained wafers an application of a rule or a set of rules

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partical reduplication

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morphological reduplication in which only part of a morpheme is reduplicated

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polysynthetic language

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a type of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships

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prefix

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affix that attaches to beginning a stem

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preposition

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the name of a lexical category and syntactic category that consists of expression such as of, in, for , with ,etc. syntactically, this category consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun phrase to their right result in an expression of category prepositional phrase

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productive

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describes a morpheme or rule.(such as a morphological rule stating under what circumstances an affix may be added to stem) that can be used to produce novel grammatical form

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pronoun

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the name of a lexical category that consists of words such as I, she, us, ect. syntactically prounouns belong to the category

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reduplicant

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the morpheme or part of a morpheme that is repeated in reduplication

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reduplication

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process of forming new words by doubling wither an entire word( total reduplication) or part of word ( particle reduplication)

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root

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the free morpheme or bound root in a world that contributes most semantic content to word and to affixes can attach

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simultaneous affix

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an affix that is articulate at the same time as some other affix of affixes in a words stem; exists only in visual gestural language

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stem

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the base consisting of one or more morphemes to which some affix is added. the stem always includes the root and may also include one or more affixes

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suffix

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affix aha attaches to then end of a stem

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suppletion

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a morphological process between forms of a words wherein one form cannot be phonologically or morphological derived from the others.

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