Morphology

Question 1

The core part of a word that carries its primary meaning, e.g. book in books.

Answer 1

Root Morpheme

Question 2

A morpheme that can stand alone as a word, e.g. cat or run.

Answer 2

Free Morpheme

Question 3

A morpheme that cannot stand alone and must attach to another morpheme, e.g. -ing in running.

Answer 3

Bound Morpheme

Question 4

A bound morpheme that changes the meaning or part of speech of a word, e.g. un- in undo or -ly in quickly.

Answer 4

Derivational Morpheme

Question 5

A bound morpheme that modifies a word to indicate grammatical features such as tense, number, or case without changing the word’s class or core meaning, e.g. -s in cats, -ed in walked or -‘s as in teacher’s.

Answer 5

Inflectional Morpheme

Question 6

The main part of a word that contains its core meaning, to which affixes (prefixes, suffixes, etc.) can be added. It typically consists of the root morpheme plus any derivational affixes but not inflectional ones.

Answer 6

Stem

Question 7

The process of adding a affix (a type of bound morpheme) to a word or root to create a new word or modify its meaning. Affixes can be prefixes (added before the root), suffixes (added after the root) or infixes (inserted within the root).

Answer 7

Affixiation

Question 8

A type of affix that is inserted within the root or stem of a word, rather than at the beginning or end of a word. Relatively rare in english but commonly found in other languages.

Answer 8

Infix