Morphology and Lexicology

Question 1

Free Morphemes

Answer 1

Stand Alone word

Question 2

Bound Morphemes

Answer 2

Attachments to free morphemes

Question 3

Infectional Morphemes

Answer 3

Do NOT change meaning, Provide additional information (plurity) E.g -S

Question 4

Derivational Morphemes

Answer 4

Change meaning of words E.g Un-

Question 5

Root Word

Answer 5

Semantic base of word

Question 6

Prefix

Answer 6

Added Morpheme at front of word

Question 7

Infix

Answer 7

Added Morpheme in middle of word

Question 8

Suffix

Answer 8

Added Morpheme at end of word

Question 9

Concrete Common noun

Answer 9

Nouns that are physically there, and can be touched, smelt, heard, tasted or seen

Question 10

Abstract Common noun

Answer 10

Nouns that are concepts, ideas or emotions, do NOT exist physically E.g Bravery

Question 11

Count noun

Answer 11

Can be counted and have plural form

Question 12

Non-count noun

Answer 12

Can not be counted, do not have plural form E.g Information

Question 13

Proper noun

Answer 13

Capitalised, name specific things

Question 14

Collective noun

Answer 14

Name of group of something E.g Swarm

Question 15

Regular plural noun

Answer 15

Noun made plural by adding -s or -es

Question 16

Iregular Plural noun

Answer 16

Noun made plural by adding irregular features

Question 17

Adjective

Answer 17

Define or modify nouns

Question 18

Adverb

Answer 18

Define or modify Verbs (even adjectives or other adverbs)

Question 19

Regular verb

Answer 19

Form their past tense through addition of an affix

Question 20

Irregular verb

Answer 20

Form their past tense through typically altering word stem E.g Been

Question 21

Auxiliary verb

Answer 21

Verbs that modify and change an aspect of main verb (such as tense, negatives, questions etc) E.g Was

Question 22

Modal verb

Answer 22

Carry infromation to do with notations. (Can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might and must)

Question 23

Determiner

Answer 23

Introduce noun phrases and act as modifiers

Question 24

Pronoun

Answer 24

Short words that can replace nouns

Question 25

Preposition

Answer 25

Function words that show relationship between nouns and add information E.g Under

Question 26

Interjections

Answer 26

Words that express a sudden emotion or feeling

Question 27

Coordinating conjunction

Answer 27

Link words, phrases and clauses together (FANBOYS)

Question 28

Subordinating

Answer 28

Can only join clauses together; intorduce aubordinate clauses and link them to main clauses E.g Because

Question 29

FANBOYS

Answer 29

for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so

Question 30

Neologism

Answer 30

A newly coined word

Question 31

Blend

Answer 31

Using parts of two words to create a new one

Question 32

Initialism

Answer 32

Beginning letters in a sequence of words

Question 33

Acronym

Answer 33

Evolve from using first letters of each word to pronouncing on there own right

Question 34

Shortening

Answer 34

Dropping endings of words to create new one

Question 35

Compounding

Answer 35

Creating a new word from putting two free morphemes together

Question 36

Conversion

Answer 36

Converting a word to another word class without affix addition

Question 37

Contraction

Answer 37

Squeezing two words into one

Question 38

Collocation

Answer 38

words in phrases that are closely associated that we automatically think of the pair together

Question 39

Borrowing

Answer 39

the process of taking words from another language

Question 40

Commonisation

Answer 40

Common words that come from a proper noun

Question 41

Archaism

Answer 41

Words that are no longer used in everyday life

Question 42

Morphological Patterning

Answer 42

repeated presence of words made by word formations E.g ‘Greeny-blueish’ in colour.

Question 43

Simple Lexical patterning

Answer 43

alternatives of a word in identical form or simple change E.g Sing, sings

Question 44

Complex Lexical patterning

Answer 44

Forms of a word created through affixation E.g Category, categorise, categorical