Morphology and Lexicology

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

A person, place or thing.

Example: tree, table, toilet

Question 2

Verb

Answer 2

An action word.

Example: eat, sleep

Question 3

Auxiliary (Verb)

Answer 3

A auxiliary verb is a helper verb which can give a sentence grammatical structure.

Example: do, be, have

Question 4

Modal (Verb)

Answer 4

A verb that indicates the possibility of an action.

Example: will, could

Question 5

Adjectives

Answer 5

A modifier of nouns and its attributes.

Example: sleepy, smelly

Question 6

Adverbs

Answer 6

A modifier of verbs.

Example: quickly, aggressively

Question 7

Prepositions

Answer 7

Indicates a position, place, position or time.

Example: above, beside

Question 8

Pronouns

Answer 8

Replaces a noun in a sentence.

Example: he, her, she

Question 9

Conjunctions

Answer 9

Joins two independent clauses or linguistic units together.

Example: for, and, nor, because, or, yet, so

Question 10

Determiners

Answer 10

Determines which/what noun is being referred to.

Example: That, they

Question 11

Interjections

Answer 11

An expression of emotion.

Example: Ugh! Oh! Wow!

Question 12

Function Words

Answer 12

A word that hold grammatical structure in a sentence.

Example: function words such as because, he, yet.

Question 13

Content Words

Answer 13

A word that has meaning to it.

Example: toilet, ninja

Question 14

Affixation

Answer 14

Adding an affix to a word to modify its meaning.

Question 15

Prefix

Answer 15

Adding an affix to the start of a word.

Question 16

Suffix

Answer 16

Adding an affix to the end of a word.

Example: issue -> issued (adding an ‘d’)

Question 17

Infix

Answer 17

Adding a morpheme in the middle of a word.

Example: Abso-bloody-lutely.

Question 18

Inflection

Answer 18

An affix added to a word. It may change the tense but not the meaning.

Examples: Dog -> Dogs, Fly - Flew

Question 19

Derivation

Answer 19

An affix added to a word which forms a word with altered meaning.

Examples: Feel -> Feelings

Question 20

Root (Morpheme)

Answer 20

The core unit of a word. The smallest unit of individual meaning.

Question 21

Bound (Morpheme)

Answer 21

Requires a root morpheme or else it does not make grammatical sense.

Example: -ly, -ness

Question 22

Free (Morpheme)

Answer 22

A morpheme that can occur alone.

Example: television

Question 23

Suffixation in Australian English

Answer 23

-

Question 24

Blends

Answer 24

Words created by combining the contraction of two or more words.

Example: Shopper + Alcoholic = Shopaholic

Question 25

Acronyms

Answer 25

A word formed by the first letter of individual words where the resulting word is pronounced like a word.

Example: RAM, ANZAC

Question 26

Initialisms

Answer 26

A word formed by the first letter of individual words where each letter is pronounced individually.

Example: ATM, CPU

Question 27

Shortenings

Answer 27

The ommision of phonemes in a word to create a shorter word.

Example: University -> Uni

Question 28

Compounding

Answer 28

A word formed by the combination of two or more free morphemes.

Example: Whiteboard, teamwork

Question 29

Contractions

Answer 29

A word formed by combining two or more other words.

Example: can’t = can not.

Question 30

Collocations

Answer 30

A goup of words which habitually appear together and therefore convey meaning by association.

Question 31

Neologisms

Answer 31

A newly coined word, expression or usage.

Question 32

Morphological and Lexical Patterning

Answer 32

Patterns evident in a text in terms of the lexical choices and morphological processes used.