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Morphology Flashcards

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Morphology

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Study of system of underlying rules of our knowledge of words.

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Lexicon

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Mental dictionary; info about words and rules used to build them

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Onomatopoeia

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Word w/ connection of sound and meaning

Meow

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Morpheme

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Smallest unit of meaning in word

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Syntactic category

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Set of words that share significant number of grammatical characteristics

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Monomorphemic

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Consisting of single, free morpheme (car, brown)

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Polymorphemic

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Multiple morphemes. More than one (grammatically, anthropomorphic, linguistics)

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Content words

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Words with lexical meanings (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) words that can be looked up.

Open class

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Open class

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Words that accept new members

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Function words

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Words with functional meanings (determiners , auxiliary verbs, etc) don’t have “contentful meaning”

Closed class

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Closed class

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Words that don’t accept new members : determiners , auxillary verbs , etc

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Bound morpheme

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Morpheme that MUST attach to another

“ize” “trans”

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Free morpheme

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Morpheme that stands alone as word

Cat, butter, drink

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Affix

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A type of bound morpheme.
Prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes

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Affixation

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Process which morphemes attach to others

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Clitic

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Morpheme that’s grammatically independent but phonologically dependent on other word

Want to becoming wanna

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Root morpheme

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Morpheme which an affix can attach

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Bound root morpheme

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Non affix morpheme can’t stand alone

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Productive rule

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Morphological rules combining certain morphemes

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Derivational affix

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Affix that attach to morpheme or word to get new word

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Derivational prefix

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Usually doesn’t change word category but will change meaning

Happy unhappy

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Derivational suffix

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Usually change word category

Happy - adjective

Happy + ness = happiness

Happiness - noun

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Inflectional affixes

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Affix that adds grammatical info but won’t change category or dictionary entry

Cat

Cats

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