Morphology continued

Question 1

Paradigm

Answer 1

Set of inflectional forms used to express values of a particular grammatical feature

Question 2

Periphrastic construction

Answer 2

an auxiliary element appears beside the main verb

Question 3

Finite verbs

Answer 3

take an auxiliary that changes according to the person number or even gender

Question 4

Nominative case

Answer 4

For subjects eg the tree

Question 5

Genitive case

Answer 5

for possessors eg the man’s tree

Question 6

Dative case

Answer 6

for indirect objects eg john gave the man a tree

Question 7

Accusative case

Answer 7

for direct objects eg he bought a treed8

Question 8

Agreement

Answer 8

is when inflectional morphology gives information about the word it attaches itself to

Question 9

Dual

Answer 9

when a language has an inflection for when there are exactly two people

Question 10

Syncretism

Answer 10

When the same morphological form is used for different values of the same inflectional category

Question 11

Blocking

Answer 11

A more specific form of a verb blocks a less specific one, eg went already appears in an english users lexicon whilst the past tense of walk doesn’t so -ed is added

Question 12

Which combination of lexical categories shows there to be an arbitrary gap in the english language

Answer 12

V-A

Question 13

Structurally ambiguous words

Answer 13

can be both left and right branching

Question 14

What is the right hand head rule

Answer 14

The the right hand side of the compound refers to the lexical category

Question 15

Compounds that don’t have a head

Answer 15

Exocentric

Question 16

Co-ordinative compounds

Answer 16

are headless which have two members that work together to give an overall meaning

Question 17

Co-compounds

Answer 17

x and y are of similar sorts but create a new word describing them both when put together eg brother and sister goes to ‘siblings’

Question 18

Synthetic compounds

Answer 18

Combinations of compounding and derivation

Question 19

Prefixes are…

Answer 19

non category determining affixes

Question 20

Suffixes are…

Answer 20

category determining affixes

Question 21

Name the exceptions in the right hand head rule for prefixes

Answer 21

de, en and be

Question 22

Zero derivation

Answer 22

When a word changes class with no visible morphology