Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

english 211 Intro to Linguistics > Morphology > Flashcards

Morphology Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
Q

Affix

A

Bound morpheme that attaches to a stem.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Affixation

A

Process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Agglutinating language

A

A type of synthetic language in which the relationships between words in a sentence are indicated primarily by bound morphemes.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Allomorph

A

One of a set of nondistinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Alternation

A

The morphological process that uses morpheme - internal modifications to make new words or morphological distinctions.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Ambiguity

A

The phenomenon by which a single linguistic form (e.g., a word or a string of words) can be the form of more than one distinct linguistic expression. The form that is shared by more than one expression is said to be ambiguous.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Analytic language

A

Type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequences of these free morphemes.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Bound morpheme

A

Morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes, never existing as a word itself.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Bound root

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Closed lexical category

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Compounding

A

Process of forming words by combining two or more independent words.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Conjunction

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Content morpheme

A

Morpheme that carries semantic content (as opposed to merely performing a grammatical function).

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Content word

A

A word whose primarily purpose is to contribute semantic content to the phase in which it occurs. All free content morphemes are content words.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Derivation

A

A morphological process that changes a word’s lexical category or its meaning in some predictable way.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Determiner

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Form

A

The structure or shape of any particular linguistic item, from individual segments to strings of words.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Free morpheme

A

A morpheme that can stand alone as a word.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Function morpheme

A

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

20
Q

Function word

A

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

21
Q

Fusional language

A

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

22
Q

Hierarchical structure

A

The dominance relationship among morphemes in a word or among constituents in a phrase.

23
Q

Homophony

A

The phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form; ie, sound the same.

24
Q

Incorporation

A

Morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in a polysynthetic language.

25
Q

Infix

A

A type of bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem.

26
Q

Inflection

A

A morphological process whereby the form of a word is modified to indicate some grammatically relevant information, such as person, number, tense, gender, etc…

27
Q

Input

A

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

28
Q

Lexical category

A

Class of words grouped together based on morphological properties. Traditionally known as part of speech.

29
Q

Lexicon

A

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 descriptive, not mental, grammar, the lexicon, consisting of lexical entries that capture the relevant properties of lexical expressions.

30
Q

Morpheme

A

The smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function.

31
Q

Morphology

A

The study of how words are constructed out of morphemes.

32
Q

Open lexical category

A

Lexical category into which now members are often introduced.

33
Q

Output

A

The linguistic form obtained after an application of a rule or a set of rules.

34
Q

Partial reduplication

A

Morphological reduplication in which only part of a morpheme is reduplicated.

35
Q

Polysynthetic language

A

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

36
Q

Prefix

A

Affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem.

37
Q

Preposition

A

The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as of, in, for, with, etc…

38
Q

Productive

A

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

39
Q

Pronoun

A

The name of a lexical category that consists of words such as I, she, us etc…

40
Q

Reduplicant

A

The morpheme or part of a morpheme that is repeated in reduplication.

41
Q

Reduplication

A

Process of forming new words by doubling either an entire word or part of a word.

42
Q

Root

A

The free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes most semantic content to the word, and to which affixes can attach.

43
Q

Simultaneous affix

A

An affix that is articulated at the same time as some other affix or affixes in a word’s stem, exists only in visual gestural languages.

44
Q

Stem

A

The base, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which some affix is added.

45
Q

Suffix

A

Affix that attaches to the end of a stem.

46
Q

Suppletion

A

A morphological process between forms of a word wherein one form cannot by phonologically or morphologically derived from the other.

english 211 Intro to Linguistics (7 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions