Morphology Flashcards
Affix
An additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning.
Affixation
Is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme, an affix, is attached to a morphological base. Employ for derivation of new words and word forms. The most common.
Agglutinating language
A morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic and where each morpheme corresponds to a single lexical meaning.
Allomorph
Any versions of a morpheme, such as the plural endings for the plural morpheme. Example, s (as in bats ), z (as in bugs ), and iz (as in buses).
Alternation
An alternation is the phenomenon of a morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological realization.
Ambiguity
The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.
Analytic language
A language that primarily conveys relationships between words in sentences by way of helper words (particles, prepositions, etc.). Word order, as opposed to utilizing inflections. changing the form of a word to convey its role in the sentence.
Bound Morpheme
That can appear only as part of a larger expression
Bound Root
A root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme.
Closed Lexical Category
The closed classes in English include pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, and prepositions.
Compounding
That is, in familiar terms, compounding occurs when two or more words or signs are joined to make one longer word or sign.
Conjunction
Elements that link two or more words, phrases, clauses, or sentences within a larger unit, in such a way that a specific semantic relation is established between them.
Content Morpheme
A root that forms the semantic core of a major class word.
Content Word
Are words that name objects of reality and their qualities.
Derivation
The set of stages that link the abstract underlying structure of an expression to its surface form.
Determiner
A word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context.
Form
A meaningful unit of speech. A morpheme, word, or sentence.
Free Morpheme
That can stand alone as a word.