Morphology Flashcards

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Morhpology

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  • Morphemes
  • Morphological over-generalisation
  • Word formation processes/morphological patterning
  • Morphological patterning
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Morphemes

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Free
Bound
Affixation

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Free morpheme

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Can stand alone, words in their own right (eg. ‘banana’).

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Bound morpheme

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Cannot stand independently, must be attached to free morpheme (eg. ‘s’, affixes such as ‘ly’, ‘im’, ‘dis’).
- Inflectional + derivational

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Inflectional morpheme

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Don’t change meaning/word class, provide extra grammatical information instead (eg. plurality, possession, tense).

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Derivational morpheme

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Change meaning of words, create new words, change word class.

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Affixation (3 types)

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  • Prefix - start of word (eg. ‘un’ added = unhelpful).
  • Infix - middle of word (eg. ‘bloody’ added = abso-bloody-lutely)
  • Suffix - end of word (eg. ‘ly’ added = beautifully).
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Word formation processes/morphological patterning

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  • Shortening
  • Compounding
  • Blends
  • Conversion
  • Initialism
  • Acronym
  • Contraction
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Shortening

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Dropping endings/beginnings to create a shorter form (eg. refrigerator to fridge).

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Compounding

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Creating new words by putting 2 free morphemes together (eg. blueberry, facebook).

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Blends

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Using parts of 2 words to create a new one (eg. brother + romance = bromance).

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Conversion

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Converting words from one word class to another without adding suffixes (eg. ‘email’- originally a noun is now a verb + takes verb suffixes).

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Initialism

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Made up of the beginning letters of words but pronounced as a series of letters (eg. RSPCA, RSVP).

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Acronym

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Made up of the beginning letters of words to create a new word (eg. ANZAC, SCUBA).

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Contraction

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Squeezing 2 words into one with an apostrophe signalling part of the word is missing (eg. ‘I will’ to ‘I’ll’).

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Morphological patterning

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Repeated presence of words made by one (or more) of the word formation processes (eg. ‘greeny-blueish’).