Morophology Flashcards
affix
found morpheme that attaches to stem
affixation
process of forming words by adding affixes to morpheme
agglutinating language
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.
allomorph
one of a set of non contrastive realization of the phoneme; an actual phonetic segment
alternation
the morphological process that uses morpheme-internal modification to make new worlds or morphological distinction
ambiguity
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
analytic language
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.
bound morpheme
morpheme that always attaches to there morphemes, never existing as a word itself.
bound root
morpheme that has some associated basic meaning but that is unable to stand alone as a word in its own right
closed lexical category
lexical category in which the members are fairly rigidly established and additions are made very rarely and over long periods of time
compounding
process of forming words by combing two or more independent words
conjunction
a lexical category that consists of function words such as and, but, however etc
content morpheme
morpheme that carries semantic content as opposed to merely performing a grammatical function
content word
a words whose primary purpose is to contribute semantics content to the phrase in which it occurs. all free content morpheme are content words
derivation
a morphological process that changes a words lexical category or its meaning in some predictable way
determiner
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
form
the structure of shape of any particular linguistic item, from individual segments to strings of words
free morpheme
a morpheme tag can stand alone as a word.
function morpheme
morphemes that provides information about the grammatical relationships between words in a sentence
function word
a word that has little semantic content and whose primary purpose is to indicate grammatical relationships between other works within a phrase
fusional language
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
hierarchical structure
the dominance relationship among morphemes in a word or among constituents in a phrase
homophony
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
incorporation
morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single words in a polysynthetic language
infix
a type of bound morphemes that is inserted into the middle of the stem
inflection
a morphological process whereby the from of a word is modified to indicated some grammatically relevant information such as person, number, tense, gender, etc
input
the linguistic form before the application of a rule or set of rules
lexical category
class of words grouped together based on morphological properties. traditionally known as part of speech
lexicon
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
morpheme
smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function
open lexical category
lexical category into which new members are often introduced
output
the linguistic from obtained wafers an application of a rule or a set of rules
partical reduplication
morphological reduplication in which only part of a morpheme is reduplicated
polysynthetic language
a type of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships
prefix
affix that attaches to beginning a stem
preposition
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
productive
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
pronoun
the name of a lexical category that consists of words such as I, she, us, ect. syntactically prounouns belong to the category
reduplicant
the morpheme or part of a morpheme that is repeated in reduplication
reduplication
process of forming new words by doubling wither an entire word( total reduplication) or part of word ( particle reduplication)
root
the free morpheme or bound root in a world that contributes most semantic content to word and to affixes can attach
simultaneous affix
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
stem
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
suffix
affix aha attaches to then end of a stem
suppletion
a morphological process between forms of a words wherein one form cannot be phonologically or morphological derived from the others.
