Morphology

Question 1

Inflectional morpheme

Answer 1

suffixes that change the grammatical meaning of a word without creating a new word

Question 2

Derivational morpheme

Answer 2

affixes that are added to the base word to create a new word or change the meaning of an existing

Question 3

Initialism

Answer 3

words formed from the initials of other word

Question 4

Acronym

Answer 4

words formed from the initials of other words, that can be said as a word

Question 5

Abbreviation

Answer 5

words formed by removing the middle part of the word

Question 6

Shortening

Answer 6

parts are omitted usually from the end of a lexeme

Question 7

Blend

Answer 7

words formed by joining more then one lexeme where one or both have been shortened

Question 8

Compounding

Answer 8

two or more free morphemes are combined in their entirety to make one word

Question 9

Contractions

Answer 9

lexemes formed by joining words, indicated with an apostrophe or elision

Question 10

Conversion

Answer 10

lexemes that are created through broadening to more than one word class

Question 11

Hypocoristic use of suffixes

Answer 11

adding suffixes like “-ie” or “-o” to a word to create a new, shorter version