Morphology

Question 1

What is morphology

Answer 1

the study of the structure of words

Question 2

Morpheme

Answer 2

smallest linguistic unit that has meaning

Question 3

Open lexical category

Answer 3

words that can be changed

examples: run, walk, beautiful etc

Question 4

Closed Lexical Category

Answer 4

words that cannot be changed

Examples: you, he, she, we, they, etc

Question 5

Prefixes, Suffixes, Infixes

Answer 5

pre = beginning of the word

suffixes = end of the word

infixes = middle of the word

Question 6

Inflectional Affixes

Answer 6

added to a word to modify the form of the word
*don’t change the meaning or grammatical category

s (third person or plural), ‘s, ed, en, ing, er, est

Question 7

Derivational Affixes

Answer 7

added to words to change either the meaning or grammatical category

ful
ment
ity
un

Question 8

Affixation

Answer 8

adding an affix

Question 9

Alternation

Answer 9

substitute one phoneme for another in a lexical root

man –> men
foot –> feet
ring –> rang

Question 10

Suppletion

Answer 10

the root is replaced by a different form

example:
is –> was
go –> went
teach –> taught

Question 11

Reduplication

Answer 11

Doubling of a free morpheme

Example:
hokey pokey
chit-chat

Question 12

Compounding

Answer 12

combining two or more than two independent words

Example
blackbird
boyfriend
clickbait

Question 13

Blending

Answer 13

combining parts of two different words

example
bromance

Question 14

clipping

Answer 14

shortening a longer word

example
cell
limo

Question 15

functional shifting

Answer 15

shifting grammatical category of a word without changing its form

example
she sent me a text
she texted me

Question 16

acronym

Answer 16

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