Morphemes Flashcards
difine morpheme
is the smallest unit of meaning or grammatical function
difine Morph
is the phonetical realization of a morpheme (sound)
difine allomorph
is the way ou ways a morph can potentionally sound
Roots can be?
free, most of them are. or bounded - “ceive”, cur”, “mit”, “tain”
affixes are?
always bounded: prefixes, infixes, suffixes
tell the correlations of morphemes and morphs.
one-to-one,
1 morph, more than one morpheme
1 morpheme more than one morph (allomorph)
1 morpheme 0 morph
1 morph 0 morpheme - empty morph
allomorphs?
morheme of plural
morpheme of 3 person
morpheme of past tense
morpheme of negation
allomorph of the morpheme of plural and 3 person
ends in voiceless consonants - /s/
ends in voiced consonants and vowels - /z/
ends in sibilants - /iz/
allomorph of the morpheme of reguar past tense
ends in voiced consonants exept T - /t/
ends in voiced consonants and vowels exept D - /d/
ends in t or d - /id/
allomorph of the morpheme of negation
preciding biliabial consonants - /im/
preciding alveolar consonants - /in/
preciding velar consonants or vowels- /iŋ/
morphological processes
affixation -
derivation (change of meaning, change of grammatical class, change of grammatical sub-class)
inflection - (tense, aspect, number, degree, case)
compounding -
endrocentric ( right-headed, left-heded)
exocentric (opaque, copulative)
difference between derivation and inflection
derivational- can change meaning, can change grammatical class, apear in dictionary, open
Inflection - do not change meaning, do not change grammatical funcion, can add grammatical pecifications (s), do not apear in the dictionary, closed.
derivational morphemes, change of meaning
prefixes
- negative (idea)
- reversive (action)
- degree ( ultra)
- order ( ex)
change of grammatical class
suffixes
- v—-n
- v—-a
- d—–n
change of grammatical sub-class
suffixes
- concrete noun —– abstract noun
- abstract noun ——- concrete noun
- noun —– dominuitive noun