Morphology and Lexicology

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Morphology

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The study of word formation

Question 2

Morpheme

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The smallest unit of meaning

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Stem

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A morpheme that can stand alone, represents the meaning of the word

un DO ing

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Bound morpheme

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Must be attached to another morpheme (Stem) to make a word

ing, un, re

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Free Morpheme

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A unit of meaning that can stand alone as a word.

“Dog” in “Doghouse”

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Affix

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A morpheme that cannot exist on it’s own, needs to be added to stem. Prefix or Suffix

(re)do
Jump(ing)

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Prefix

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An affix attached to the front of the stem

(Un)do
(Re)duplicate

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Suffix

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A morpheme attached to the end of a stem

Runn(ing)
Kill(ing)

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Inflectional Morpheme

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Morphemes that give grammatical information.

Old -> Older
High -> Higher

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Derivational Morpheme

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Morphemes that change the word class

Teach -> Teacher

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Backformation

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Affixes are removed from words to create new words.

Burgeler -> Burgle

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Affixation

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Adding an affix to a word to create a new word

Mail -> Email

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Contraction

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The process of shortening a word by combination or elision.

can not -> can’t
Should not -> Shouldn’t

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Abbreviation

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A shortened form of a word or phrase

Reverend -> Rev

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Alliteration

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.

Test Taste

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Assonance

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The repetition of similarly stressed vowel sounds.

Right Bite Might

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds in the same position on nearby words.

Bland Rend

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Noun

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a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things

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Verb

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a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

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Auxiliary Verb (And Examples)

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An auxiliary verb helps the main (full) verb and is also called a “helping verb.” With auxiliary verbs, you can write sentences in different tenses, moods, or voices.

be, do, have, will, shall, would, should, can, could, may, might, must, ought, etc.

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Modal Verbs

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an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility

must, shall, should, can

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Adjectives

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a word naming an attribute of a noun,

Sweet, Red, Technical

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Adverbs

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a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree

gently, here, now, very

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Prepositions

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Expresses Relations (Spatial, Time, Relationship) (Not just physical)

ON the platform
she arrived AFTER dinner
what did you do it FOR

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Pronouns

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Refers to a noun/s either earlier or later in the discourse. I, She, He, They, Him, Her

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Conjunction

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a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause and, but, if

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Determiners

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a modifying word that determines the kind noun or noun group type a, the, every

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Interjections

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an exclamation, especially as a part of speech Ah! Dear me! Shit!

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Function Word

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a word whose purpose is to contribute to the syntax rather than the meaning of a sentence, we DO not live here Auxiliary verbs, pronouns, articles, and prepositions

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Content Word

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Content words are words that have meaning Nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs

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Infix

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A morpheme that is inserted into the base of the word to create a new word or intensify meaning. Abso-Bloody-Lutely

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Blends

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A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two or more other words or word parts camcorder (camera recorder)

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Acronyms

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an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word ANZAC Australia New Zealand Army Corps

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Initialism

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an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately BBC British Broadcasting Corporation

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Shortenings

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word formation process which consists in the reduction of a word to one of its parts Newspaper -> Paper Because -> cause

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Compounding

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the process of combining two words (free morphemes) to create a new word Butter fly -> Butterfly

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Collocations

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A sequence of words that co-appear more often than expected by chance. Good Morning Merry Christmas

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Neologisms

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A newly coined word Huragh

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Pragmatics

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The study of how context contributes to meaning.

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Register

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a variety of a language or a level of usage, as determined by degree of formality and choice of vocabulary, pronunciation, and syntax, according to the communicative purpose, social context, and standing of the user. THINK FORMALITY

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Abstract Noun

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A noun that cannot be touched/isn't tangible. Authority, responsibility

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Abstract Noun

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A noun that cannot be touched/isn't tangible. Authority, responsibility