Morphology Flashcards
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Morpheme
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Minimal unit of meaning or grammar
2
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free morpheme
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roots or simple words
3
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lexical ( content)
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open classes like nouns, verbs or adjectives
4
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Functional
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closed classes:conjunctions, prepositions, articles, demonstratives, auxiliary verbs, pronouns
5
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bound
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never stand by its self
6
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bound roots
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vert: inVERT, diVERT,
7
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affixes
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prefixes, suffixes, infixes
8
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derivational
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forms new words when added to a morpheme: childISH, changes part of speech
9
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inflectional
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dont produce new words, just different forms
10
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inflectional suffixes
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s and es:plural nouns 's:possesive nouns s:third person singualr present tense on a verb like walks ed: past tense on a verb like walked ing:present participle ending on a verb ed/en:past participle ending on verb like i have walked er:comparative on adjective or adverbs est:superlative
11
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3 tests for dividing words into morphems
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each candidiate has meaning
each candidate has same meaning in other words
meaning of word is the sum of the morph meanings
