Morphology Flashcards
Lexicology
Study of lexis, understood as the stock of words in a given language
Morphology
Concerned with internal structure of words and various processes which allow us to constantly enlarge the vocabulary of a language
Word
Used to designate an intermediate structure smaller than a whole phrase and yet larger than a single sound segment
An uninterruptible unit of structure consisting of one or more morphemes and which typically occurs in the structure of phrases
Morpheme
Basic morphological unit
The smallest meaning-bearing unit of language
Lexical free morpheme
Content word (open)
Grammatical free morpheme
Function word (closed)
Lexical bound morpheme
Derivational morpheme (open) Pre- and suffixes
Grammatical bound morpheme
Inflectional (closed)
Suffixes
Phonologically conditioned allomorph
Plural morpheme (cats, dogs, horses) Negative prefix (insincere, impossible, illegal)
Lexical conditioned allomorph
Irregular plurals (sheep, oxen, men) Past tense of irregular verbs (went, came, brought)
Potmanteau morph
Particular morph that instantiates more than one morpheme at the same time, i.e. Has several different meanings
Cranberry morph
Bound morphemes that only occur in one word (cranberry, huckleberry)
Base
Part of a word on which you add affixes
Root
What remains when you take off all derivational and inflectional affixes
Stem
What remains when you take off all inflectional suffixes
