Morphology Backwards Flashcards
repeating the word, ex: like like, green green
Reduplication
Anything that uses an affix, ex: undo, redo, fucking
Affixation
two free morphemes combining to make one word, ex: girlfriend, boyfriend, blackbird
Compounding
Anything with an affix in the middle of the word: abso-frickin-lutely, un-frickin-believable
Infixation
Anything where a sound is changed to make a new word, ex: goose and geese, thief and thieves
Alternation
Anything when the whole word is changed to make a new word, ex: go and went; good, better, best
Suppletion
Necessary for the sentence to make sense
Argument
Not necessary for the sentence to make sense, just extra info
Adjunct
Slept
VP
Liked
TV
Gave
DTV
Believed
SV
Asking if something is true or not, if it’s a sentence it’s basically a proposition
Proposition
A word is borrowed from another language, ex: cherries borrowed from cherise
Backformation
ex: Laser, NATO, Radar
Acronyms
Combining two words, ex: brunch - breakfast lunch, smog - smoke and fog, chortle - chuckle and snort
Blends
Shortening words without paying attention to derivational morphology. Ex: Examination - exam, taxicab - taxi or cab, dormitory - dorm
Clipping
Words are just made, Kodak, Exxon, pooch
Coinages
Created when changing the lexical category, laugh, run, buy, steal - used to be verbs now they’re also nouns
Conversion
Words that are named for people, ex: Washington is named after George Washington, Watt is from James Watt, Faraday is from Michael Faraday
Eponyms
