morphology and lexicology

Question 1

morphology

Answer 1

the study of the structure of words

Question 2

lexicology

Answer 2

the language/vocabulary

Question 3

suffixation

Answer 3

creating colloquial words by shortening them and adding suffixes
1. comment on when talking about register
2. can be connected to situational context

e.g. politicians–pollies
tradesmen–tradies

Question 4

word class

Answer 4

1. nouns
2. adjectives
3. adverbs
4. verbs
5. Auxiliary verbs
6. Modal verbs
7. determiners
8. pronouns
9. prepositions
10. interjection
11. conjunctions

Question 5

function words

Answer 5

function words exist to perform a job to convey grammatical relationships between words in a sentence
1. determiners
2. auxiliary verbs
3. modal verbs
4. prepositions
5.pronouns
6. conjunctions
7. interjections

Question 6

nouns

Answer 6

1. proper nouns (names)
2. common nouns (concrete or abstract)
3. collective nouns (names of groups)
4. plural nouns (add s or es)

Question 7

adjectives

Answer 7

define or modify nouns. they provide additional information

Question 8

adverbs

Answer 8

they can modify verbs adjectives and other adverbs
-mostly end in ly
-they answer how, how often, where, how much, when?

Question 9

verbs

Answer 9

denote actions, processes and states.

Question 10

Auxiliary verbs

Answer 10

helping verbs, to be , to have, to do

Question 11

modal verbs

Answer 11

can could shall should…they carry information to do with notions such as ability, permission, likelihood and obligation

Question 12

determiners

Answer 12

they introduce noun phrases and function as modifiers
-a, an, the, my, yours, this, that…

Question 13

pronouns

Answer 13

short words that can replace nouns, i me my mine you your yours…..

Question 13

prepositions

Answer 13

they position things in place or time or describe the manner in which an action is performed
e.g. where is the dog? UNDER the desk, BEHIND the couch, IN the room

Question 13

neologism

Answer 13

newly coined words, expression or wage
–> chillax,webinar

Question 14

interjections

Answer 14

words that express a sudden emotion. ouch, hello, damn, yes, okay …

Question 14

Acronyms

Answer 14

words that evolve as the result of using the first letter of a series of words
–> ANZAC, lol, scuba, ATAR

Question 14

initialism

Answer 14

when the first letter of each word is used but it isnt read as a word
–> RSVP

Question 14

conjunctions

Answer 14

words that connect other words
FANBOYS: coordinate conjunctions–for and nor but or yet so
subordinate conjunctions beacuase since if then unless while

Question 15

compounds

Answer 15

process of creating new words by putting two free morphemes together
-blueberry
-facebook

Question 15

Belnds

Answer 15

words produced by using parts of 2 words to form a new one
–> bromance

Question 15

Shorternings

Answer 15

reduction, involves dropping the ends or beginning of a word to form a shorter one
-fridge
-gym

Question 15

conversions

Answer 15

process of converting words from one word class to another class w/o adding suffixes
-email started off as a noun now its a verb

Question 16

contractions

Answer 16

squeezing two words into one. found in informal texts
-> i’ll, didn’t, they’re

Question 17

collocations

Answer 17

words within phrases so closely associated with one another that when they are heard, you immediately think of the other in the phrase -safe and sound -salt and pepper

Question 18

borrowings

Answer 18

when words from another language is used sushi

Question 19

commonisation

Answer 19

the development of common words from proper nouns -panadol, esky

Question 20

archaism

Answer 20

words that are no longer used and are considered out of date afeared-frightened

Question 21

morphological patterning

Answer 21

the repeated presence of words made by one or more word formation processes

Question 22

lexical patterning

Answer 22

the repeated presence of a word and its various forms -sing, sings -horse, horses

Question 23

word formation processes

Answer 23

ABBA'S CHICC AC * affixation * abbreviation * shortening * compounding * blending * backformation * conversion of word class * initialism * acronym * contraction * Hypocoristic use of suffixes

Question 24

lexical choices

Answer 24

it can enable you to write in a suitably formal register, give you greater expressive capabilities and allow you to convey more nuance in your observations, to name just three.

Question 25

morphemes

Answer 25

root, stem free, bound affix (prefix, suffix, infix) -

Question 26

types of suffixes

Answer 26

inflectional, derivational

Question 27

word formation processes

Answer 27

Never Buy Cold Nuggets neologism borrowings commonisation nominalisation