Morphology Flashcards
What are the 4 sentence moods?
Declarative - statement
Interrogative - question
Exclamative - exclaim; shows emotion, emergency and volume
Imperative - command; mitigated imperatives
What did Ferdinand de Saussure say?
Sign = conveys meaning
Sign = signifier — form
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signified — concept
What is morphology?
The study of the structure of words
What is a free morpheme?
The smallest part of a word that makes sense on its own
What is a bound derivational morpheme?
It changes the grammatical status of a word
E.g. slow —> slower
What is a bound inflectional morpheme?
Changes the function of the word-plurals, tense, negatives, person
E.g. tree —> trees
Open class
Adjectives
Nouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Closed class
Pronouns
Determiners
Connectives
Prepositions
What is a proper noun?
Names, places, people, organisations, days/months
What are common abstract nouns?
Ideas/ concepts, can’t be physically perceived e.g. hope,happiness
What are common concrete count nouns?
Physical object, can take BIM/ ‘s’ on the end
What are common concrete mass nouns?
Can’t take an ‘s’ in the end e.g. bread, butter
What is a superlative?
Highest amount of something
What is a lexical verb?
May function as the only verb in a sentence
Show action
E.g. ‘the boy is DIVING’
What is an auxiliary verb?
Helper verbs
E.g. ‘the boy IS diving’
