Morphology 1 Flashcards
Define Morphology
The study of word making; studies the creation and structure of words
Define Etymology
Study of origin and history of a word
Spell the Term for Study of origin and history of a word
Etymology
Define Content Words
Contain substantial concepts and meanings; open class words
List example of Content Words
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs;
Define Function Words
Words that do not have clear lexical meaning or obvious concepts associated with them; closed class words
Define borrowing
Process where words from other languages are taken over and adopted by the English language
Give examples of the process where words are borrowed from other languages
avocado from Spanish, piano from Italian
Define Compounding
the joining of two separate words to produce a new form
In a compound, the ____determines the grammatical category and its broad meaning
Head
Define Blending
The joining of two separate forms to produce a single new term, but parts of the words that are combined are deleted
##footnote: there is reduction of word in here
Define Backformation
The process of reducing a word of one type to form a word of another type (noun –> verb)
Define Clipping
The process of reducing a word (of more than one syllable) to a shorter form
Define Conversion
Changing the class of a word without changing its form (using noun as verb)
Define Coinage
the invention of a new term
