morphology

Question 1

affix

Answer 1

element that is placed in the beginning or ending of a word

Question 2

affixation

Answer 2

adding something to something else

Question 3

agglutinating language

Answer 3

complex words are formed by stringing together morphemes without changing them in spelling

Question 4

allomorph

Answer 4

any of two or more actual representations of a morpheme.

Question 5

alternation

Answer 5

repeated occurrence of two things in turn

Question 6

ambiguity

Answer 6

quality of being open to more than one interpretation

Question 7

analytic language

Answer 7

language that primarily conveys relationships between words in sentences

Question 8

bound morpheme

Answer 8

affixes that must be attached to a word

Question 9

bound root

Answer 9

morphemes that can’t be on its own

Question 10

closed lexical category

Answer 10

pronouns, determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions.

Question 11

compounding

Answer 11

puts together two free forms and gives rise to a new word

Question 12

conjunction

Answer 12

a word used to connects sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

Question 13

content morpheme

Answer 13

root that forms the semantic core of a major class word

Question 14

free morpheme

Answer 14

morpheme that can stand alone

Question 15

lexical category

Answer 15

nouns, verbs, adjectives

Question 16

morpheme

Answer 16

smallest meaningful of the grammar of a language

Question 17

morphology

Answer 17

study of structure of the words and word formation

Question 18

open lexical category

Answer 18

new word and the original word belong to the same category

Question 19

output

Answer 19

features expressed by other morphemes

Question 20

partial reduplication

Answer 20

a reduplication of only part of the word

Question 21

polysynthetic language

Answer 21

linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages,

Question 22

prefix

Answer 22

a word or letter placed before another

Question 23

preposition

Answer 23

a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element

Question 24

productive

Answer 24

currently used in forming new words or expressions

Question 25

pronoun

Answer 25

a word that can function on its own

Question 26

reduplicant

Answer 26

reduplicated segment in a word resulting from a reduplication process

Question 27

reduplication

Answer 27

process in which a part or an exact copy of a word is repeated

Question 28

root

Answer 28

base of the word that carries meaning

Question 29

simultaneous affix

Answer 29

rticulated at the same time as some other affix or affixes in a word’s stem

Question 30

stem

Answer 30

root morpheme is combined with affix morpheme

Question 31

suffix

Answer 31

a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative

Question 32

suppletion

Answer 32

the occurrence of an unrelated form to fill a gap in a conjugation