Morphology Flashcards
Morphology
Study of system of underlying rules of our knowledge of words.
Lexicon
Mental dictionary; info about words and rules used to build them
Onomatopoeia
Word w/ connection of sound and meaning
Meow
Morpheme
Smallest unit of meaning in word
Syntactic category
Set of words that share significant number of grammatical characteristics
Monomorphemic
Consisting of single, free morpheme (car, brown)
Polymorphemic
Multiple morphemes. More than one (grammatically, anthropomorphic, linguistics)
Content words
Words with lexical meanings (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) words that can be looked up.
Open class
Open class
Words that accept new members
Function words
Words with functional meanings (determiners , auxiliary verbs, etc) don’t have “contentful meaning”
Closed class
Closed class
Words that don’t accept new members : determiners , auxillary verbs , etc
Bound morpheme
Morpheme that MUST attach to another
“ize” “trans”
Free morpheme
Morpheme that stands alone as word
Cat, butter, drink
Affix
A type of bound morpheme.
Prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes
Affixation
Process which morphemes attach to others
Clitic
Morpheme that’s grammatically independent but phonologically dependent on other word
Want to becoming wanna
Root morpheme
Morpheme which an affix can attach
Bound root morpheme
Non affix morpheme can’t stand alone
Productive rule
Morphological rules combining certain morphemes
Derivational affix
Affix that attach to morpheme or word to get new word
Derivational prefix
Usually doesn’t change word category but will change meaning
Happy unhappy
Derivational suffix
Usually change word category
Happy - adjective
Happy + ness = happiness
Happiness - noun
Inflectional affixes
Affix that adds grammatical info but won’t change category or dictionary entry
Cat
Cats
