Morphology Flashcards
Definition of ‘head’?
In compounds the head determines the word class ad the kind of thing it is. The RIGHT element is usually the head. for example, cookBOOK, is right headed.
Definition of ‘productivity’?
The degree to which it is easily used to make new words.
Definition of ‘inflectional morphology’?
An affix that DOESN’T change the word class.
e.g. ‘Wait’-‘s’
Definition of ‘derivational morphology’?
An affix that results in a different lexeme.
e.g. ‘Public’-‘ity’
Definition of ‘allomorph’?
That morphemes can occur as different forms in different contexts, e.g.- ‘in’, ‘im’ and ‘il’
Definition of ‘etymology’?
The historical meaning of the word
Definition of ‘suppletion’?
Word form of a lexeme is produced by using an unrelated word rather than inflectional morphology, ‘eat’ and ‘ate’
How are new words made? (10)
1- Ex nihilo (onomatopoeia) 2-Borrowing 3-Calques (loan translation) 4-Acronyms 5-Clippings 6-Blends 7-Semantic change 8-Compounding 9-Conversion 10-Affixation
Tokens?
Counting each word regardless of if it has occurred before
Types?
Don’t count the same word twice
Productivity?
How easily new words can be made.
Morpheme?
The smallest meaningful unit in language
Diachronic?
Looking at language through time and how it develops.
Synchronic?
Looking at language at a point in time.
The list-rule fallacy?
The question about whether we need to store (list) words like greatness or unhappily in our memory or if we just store morphemes or rules.
The list-rule fallachy (mistaken) idea that this is an either or situation, when it is likely that we do both.
