Morphology

Question 1

morpheme

Answer 1

elemental units that constitute words

Question 2

form and meaning

Answer 2

• what you know when you know a word or morpheme
• inseparable
• relationship is arbitrary

Question 3

Free morpheme (open class)

Answer 3

• standalone

- content words

Question 4

Free morpheme (closed class)

Answer 4

• standalone

- function words

Question 5

Bound Morphemes (derivational affixes)

Answer 5

• suffix, prefix, circumfix, infix
• derive new words
• Ex: de-value, in-ability

Question 6

Bound morphemes (inflectional affixes)

Answer 6

• suffix, prefix, circumfix, infix
• make grammatical changes
• Ex: dog-s

Question 7

complex words

Answer 7

have a root around which stems are built by affixation

Question 8

Rules of morphology

Answer 8

determine what kinds of affixation produce proper words and what kinds produce non-words

Question 9

Productive Morphological Rules

Answer 9

apply freely to the appropriate stem

Ex: re- apply, re-sign, re-send, re-consider

Question 10

Suppletive forms

Answer 10

words that escape inflectional morphology

Ex: *mans is men

Question 11

compounds

Answer 11

• formed by uniting two or more root words in a single work

- the head is the rightmost word and bears the basic meaning

Question 12

back-formation

Answer 12

words created by misinterpreting an affix “look-alike” as an actual affix

Question 13

noisy crow

Answer 13

phrase consisting of adjective plus noun

Question 14

scarecrow

Answer 14

compound noun

Question 15

the crow

Answer 15

grammatical morpheme followed by lexical morpheme

Question 16

crowlike

Answer 16

root morpheme plus derivational suffix

Question 17

crows

Answer 17

root morpheme plus inflectional affix

Question 18

terroriz(ed)

Answer 18

inflectional suffix

Question 19

un(civil)ized

Answer 19

bound root

Question 20

terror(ize)

Answer 20

derivational suffix

Question 21

(im)possible

Answer 21

infelcitonal prefix