Morphology

Question 1

affix

Answer 1

Bound morphemes that must be attached to a word this include prefixes, infixes, suffixes and circumfixes

Question 2

affixation

Answer 2

adding a morpheme or affix to word to create a new word or different form of a word reliable to (un)reliable

Question 3

agglutinating language

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a language in which words are made up of linear sequence of distinct morphemes and each component of meaning is represented by its own morpheme skydiving

Question 4

allomorph

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Variants of a morpheme such as the ending s that indicates plural as well es, and en dogs dishes and oxen

Question 5

Alternation

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A variation in a form or sound of a word or word part knife~knives leaf~leaves cat and cats, dog and dogs pronounced with a /z/ and fox and foxes /z/

Question 6

Ambiguity

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when a word phrase or sentence has more than one meaning

Question 7

analytic language

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a language that does not use prefixes or suffixes each word is a free, single morpheme with a meaning intact.

Question 8

Bound morpheme

Answer 8

morphemes that must be attached to a word and cannot stand alone. Derivational morphemes pay (v.) payment(n.) inflectional morphemes ‘s s plural ed past participle est, superlative de in detoxify

Question 9

bound root

Answer 9

a root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme.

Question 10

closed lexical category

Answer 10

categories of morphemes that include conjunctions and or, but and determiners (a, the) and pronouns ( he she they) Close because you cannot add a morpheme to them.

Question 11

Compounding

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the process of combining two words or free morphemes to create a new word butter+Fly foot+ball

Question 12

conjunction

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words that link words, phrases or clauses together these words are words such as but, if, and, or these are closed class morphemes

Question 13

content morpheme

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morphemes express some general sort of referential or informational content, in a way that is as independent as possible of the grammatical system of a particular language content morphemes can have function morphemes added to them such as sad to sad-ly and fast to fast-er

Question 14

Content word

Answer 14

Content words are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs that give information

Question 15

Derivation

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Derivational morphemes change the grammatical category of a word. Such as a verb to a noun pay to payment.

Question 16

Determiner

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a word or affix that belongs to a class of noun modifiers that expresses the reference, including quantity, of a noun.

Question 17

Form

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The structure of words and their respective morphemes.

Question 18

Function Morpheme

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Words that do not have clear meaning but grammatical function. expressing syntactic relationships between units in a sentence, or obligatorily-marked categories such as number or tense closed class by, in, and, his, through

Question 19

Function Word

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(also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence,

Question 20

Fusional Language

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A fusional language is a language in which one form of a morpheme can simultaneously encode several meanings

Question 21

Hierarchical structure

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The morphological analysis of word structure

Question 22

homophony

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when a set of words are pronounced identically, but have different meanings. It is not necessary for homophonic words to be spelled the same way.

Question 23

Incorporation

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the compounding of a word (typically a verb or preposition) with another element (typically a noun, pronoun, or adverb). The compound serves the combined syntactic function of both elements.

Question 24

infix

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a bound morpheme affix that attaches within a root or stem.

Question 25

inflection

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Morphemes that are used to indicate aspects of the grammatical function of a word boy’s boys cleaned cleaning cleans.

Question 26

lexical category

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Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are open lexical categories. In contrast, closed lexical categories rarely acquire new members.

Question 27

input

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the processible language that the learners are exposed to while listening or reading

Question 28

morpheme

Answer 28

a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e.g. in, come, -ing, forming incoming )

Question 29

morphology

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the study of a structure of the words and word fixation

Question 30

open lexical category

Answer 30

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are open lexical categories we can add morphemes to these words

Question 31

partial reduplication

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a word formation process that repeats all or part of a word to convey some form of meaning.

Question 32

polysynthetic language

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a language that has a large number of morphemes per word.

Question 33

output

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The language produced, either in speaking or writing from the input.

Question 34

preposition

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A word used to relate to a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence. the The snow on the mountain top. Preposition being on. In, at, to Double preposition into, within, upto Compound preposition behalf, according to, accross

Question 35

productive

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the extent to which a language uses a productive morpheme actively in new combinations

Question 36

pronoun

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a member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used to replace nouns and noun phrase, and that have a general reference. I, you, she, he it who what

Question 37

reduplication

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replication all or part of the stem in order to show inflectional or derivational meanings. Full reduplication requires copying the entire root.

Question 38

root

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a word or word element/ morpheme in which other words can grow. This can happen through the use of an Affix.

Question 39

simultaneous affix

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an affix articulated at the same time as another affix in a word. This can only occur in gestural languages.

Question 40

stem

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a part of a word that is responsible for its lexical meaning.

Question 41

suffix

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an affix/morpheme that is ended to the end of a base/root word.

Question 42

suppletion

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a form of morphological irregularity whereby a change in a grammatical category triggers a change in word with. a different suppletive root. i.e., go not goed but went.

Question 43

lexicon

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A languages inventory or of lexemes or complete set of meaningful units in a language.

Question 44

reduplicant

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the copy , the portion of the output word which consistently depends on the phonological properties of the rest of the word.

Question 45

Free morpheme

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an unbound morpheme that can stand alone without any other morpheme

Question 46

prefix

Answer 46

morphemes that attach to the front of a root/base word.