Morphology Chapter 4 Flashcards
affix
a type of bound morpheme–prefrix, infix, and suffix
affixation
attaching an affix to a base morpheme
agglutinating language
language in which words are made up of a linear sequence of distinct morphemes and each component of meaning is represented by its own morpheme.
allomorph
Nondistinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar. For example, the English plural morpheme can appear as [s] as in cats, [z] as in dogs, or [‘z] as in churches. Each of these three pronunciations is said to be an allomorph of the same morpheme.
alternation
a morpheme that exhibits variations in its phological realization. examples include s/es dogs sounds like dogz
ambiguity
a quality of langauge that makes speech open to multiple interpretations
analytic language
a language that conveys relationships between words in sentences by way of helper words like prepositions, and word order
bound morpheme
a morpheme that must be attached to another morpheme to create meaning
bound root
root morphemes which cannot appear on its own. eg: receive (ceive) dissuade
closed lexical category
morphemes that cannot be added to other words
compounding
2 or more words that are tadded together to form a new word with an entirely new meaning
conjunction
a word used to connect caluses or sentences (and, but, if)
content morpheme
morphemes that express content or meaning, like a bound verb or adjective
content word
open class words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence or phrase in which they occur
derivation
a bound morpheme affix that changes the part of speech of the word when added. ie.. happy adds un to make it unhappy adjective to noun. new word, new meaning
determiner
a word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun to express reference of that noun in context. examples: articles (the, a, an) demonstrations (this that)
form
a meaningful unit of speech
free morpheme
a morpheme that can stand alone as words by themselves. ‘boy’ ‘car’