Morphology 2

Question 1

Define Morphology

Answer 1

The study of morphemes

Question 2

Define Morphemes

Answer 2

The minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function that cannot be further analysed

Question 3

Define Free Morphemes

Answer 3

Morphemes that can stand by themselves as single words

Question 4

Define Bound Morphemes

Answer 4

Morphemes that cannot stand alone and are always part of words; affixes

Question 5

Define Free Lexical Morphemes

Answer 5

Carry the “content” of the message we convey; open class of words

Question 6

Define Free Functional Morphemes

Answer 6

Pronouns, articles, conjunctions, prepositions, auxiliary verbs; closed class of words

Question 7

Define Bound Derivational Morphemes

Answer 7

Used to make new words or words of a different grammatical category; can be prefixes or suffixes

Question 8

Define Bound Inflectional Morphemes

Answer 8

Used to indicate grammatical function of a word (never change grammatical category of a word); all 8 in English are suffixes

Question 9

Define Allomorphs

Answer 9

Different forms of the same morpheme (morphs are the actual form)

Question 10

Define Root

Answer 10

Lexical content morpheme that cannot be analysed into smaller parts, may or may not stand alone as a word

Question 11

Define Stem

Answer 11

When a root is combined with an affix; may or may not be a word and other affixes can be added to a stem to form more until target is formed