Morphology

Question 1

Morphology

Answer 1

The study of the smallest units of meaning

Question 2

Morpheme

Answer 2

The smallest unit of meaning

Question 3

Free Morpheme

Answer 3

A morpheme that can stand alone and still hold full meaning (e.g. Cat, yellow)

Question 4

Bound Morpheme

Answer 4

A morpheme that only has meaning when it is attached to a root word. (e.g. -s, -ed)

Question 5

Root Word

Answer 5

Contains primary meaning of the word (e.g. ‘Cat’ in ‘Cats’)

Question 6

Inflectional Morpheme

Answer 6

A morpheme that doesn’t change the meaning nor the word class (e.g. -s)

Question 7

Derivational Morpheme

Answer 7

A morpheme that can change the meaning or word class (e.g. Im-)

Question 8

Affixation

Answer 8

The process of adding a bound morpheme to a free morpheme

Question 9

Prefix

Answer 9

A morpheme added at the beginning of a word (e.g. Im-)

Question 10

Infix

Answer 10

A morpheme added in the middle of a word (e.g. -freaking-)

Question 11

Suffix

Answer 11

A morpheme added at the end of a word (e.g. -s)