Morphology

Question 1

Root and stem

Answer 1

Smallest unit of meaning in a word is the root. Take away different morphemes and left with a stem

Unbreaking - word
Breaking - stem
Break - root morpheme

Question 2

Free and bound

Answer 2

Can’t be divided up any smaller and stand alone as a word
Have to be attached to the root or stem to be used
Unbreaking - word
Un- , -ing - bound morphemes
Break - free morpheme

Question 3

Prefix

Answer 3

Bound morphemes added to the beginning of the root/stem

• Unstable
  Makes it opposite

Question 4

Suffix

Answer 4

Bound morphemes added to the end of the root/stem
- Breaking
Makes it present tense

Question 5

Infix

Answer 5

Affix added into a word (not common in english or used in colloquial)

• abso-bloody-lutely

Question 6

Inflectional Morphemes

Answer 6

Add grammatical information to a word such as tense, possession or plural
- Baking - adds information about the tense

Question 7

Derivational Morphemes

Answer 7

Change or add to the meaning of a word.
Baker - changes meaning of the word to someone who does that action

Question 8

Abbreviation

Answer 8

Writing or pronouncing shorter forms of words or string of words. Can be constructed with normal letters/number or context specific graphemes
Lmk, gr8,
VCAA (not full word, not each letter)

Question 9

Acronym

Answer 9

Words that are made up of the initials of words but still form a new word.

ANZAC
NASA
QANTAS

Question 10

Initialism

Answer 10

Are letters that are pronounced as letters instead of the word they represent
OMG
VCE
NPC

Question 11

Shortening

Answer 11

Take off a part of the word
Uni - university
Brekky - breakfast

Question 12

Compounding

Answer 12

Add words which exist on their own (free morphemes) and change the meaning
Fit nicely together
Blueberry
Headstrong
Carpool
Carplay

Question 13

Blends

Answer 13

Add together however something falls off

Babycino - loses cappuc of cappuccino
Spork - spoon, fork

Question 14

Contraction

Answer 14

Formed by removing letters and adding an apostrophe
Won’t
Don’t

Question 15

Backformation

Answer 15

New words are formed by taking off an affix which is wrongly thought to be part of an old word (process)
Noun -> verb
televise/television
Typewrite - typewriter

Question 16

Affixation

Answer 16

Similar to compounding but only bound morphemes (prefixes, suffixes) are added
Pro-active
Run-ning
sub-system

Question 17

Conversion of word class

Answer 17

Change how we use a word
Change word class without affix

Converted the word class

I’m going to send you an email
Send - verb
Email - noun
I’ll email you
Email - verb