Morphology Backwards

Question 1

repeating the word, ex: like like, green green

Answer 1

Reduplication

Question 2

Anything that uses an affix, ex: undo, redo, fucking

Answer 2

Affixation

Question 3

two free morphemes combining to make one word, ex: girlfriend, boyfriend, blackbird

Answer 3

Compounding

Question 4

Anything with an affix in the middle of the word: abso-frickin-lutely, un-frickin-believable

Answer 4

Infixation

Question 5

Anything where a sound is changed to make a new word, ex: goose and geese, thief and thieves

Answer 5

Alternation

Question 6

Anything when the whole word is changed to make a new word, ex: go and went; good, better, best

Answer 6

Suppletion

Question 7

Necessary for the sentence to make sense

Answer 7

Argument

Question 8

Not necessary for the sentence to make sense, just extra info

Answer 8

Adjunct

Question 9

Slept

Answer 9

VP

Question 10

Liked

Answer 10

TV

Question 11

Gave

Answer 11

DTV

Question 12

Believed

Answer 12

SV

Question 13

Asking if something is true or not, if it’s a sentence it’s basically a proposition

Answer 13

Proposition

Question 14

A word is borrowed from another language, ex: cherries borrowed from cherise

Answer 14

Backformation

Question 15

ex: Laser, NATO, Radar

Answer 15

Acronyms

Question 16

Combining two words, ex: brunch - breakfast lunch, smog - smoke and fog, chortle - chuckle and snort

Answer 16

Blends

Question 17

Shortening words without paying attention to derivational morphology. Ex: Examination - exam, taxicab - taxi or cab, dormitory - dorm

Answer 17

Clipping

Question 18

Words are just made, Kodak, Exxon, pooch

Answer 18

Coinages

Question 19

Created when changing the lexical category, laugh, run, buy, steal - used to be verbs now they’re also nouns

Answer 19

Conversion

Question 20

Words that are named for people, ex: Washington is named after George Washington, Watt is from James Watt, Faraday is from Michael Faraday

Answer 20

Eponyms