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Morphological Development: Inflectional and Derivational Morphology Flashcards

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What is Inflectional Morphology?

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How morphemes are used to create different grammatical functions

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What are the different grammatical functions created in Inflections?

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Possession, tense

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What is the effect of the -s inflection on verbs?

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Makes it 3rd person singular, present tense

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What is the effect of the -ed inflection on verbs?

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Makes them past tense

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What is the effect of the -ing inflection on verbs?

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Makes them present continuous

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What is the effect of the -en inflection on verbs?

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Makes it past tense

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What is the effect of the -s inflection on nouns?

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Makes them plural

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What is the effect of the -‘s inflection on nouns?

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Makes it possessive

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What is the effect of -er inflection on adjectives?

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Makes it comparative

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What is the effect of the -est inflection on adjectives?

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Makes it a superlative

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What is Derivational Morphology?

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How two separate morphemes are put together to make new words in terms of meaning or word class

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What is an example of Derivational Morphology?

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Tooth + Paste = Toothpaste

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What are the 3 common Derivational Morphology types?

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Conversion Affixation Compounding

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What is Conversion?

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Using a word in a different word class

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What is an example of conversion?

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“I jammed the bread”

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Why is this example conversion?

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Because Jam is a noun and it’s being used as a verb

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What is Affixation

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Adding suffixes or prefixes to words making new words

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What is an example of Affixation?

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“It’s crowdy in here”

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Why is this Affixation?

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Bound prefix morpheme “-y” has been added

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What is Compounding?

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Joining existing words to create new ones

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What is an example of compounding?

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That’s the tractor-man

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Why is this Compounding?

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Because tractor-man as one word does not exist

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