Morphology Pt. 2

Question 1

What are the three classes of words?

Answer 1

simple: monomorphemic (Ex: tree)
Complex: more than one morpheme, only 1 root (Ex: trees)
Compound: more than 1 root (classroom)

Question 2

What is a onomatopoeia?

Answer 2

words sound like the thing that they name

Question 3

What is coinage?

Answer 3

the creation of totally new words

Question 4

What is borrowing?

Answer 4

adopting words of one language into another

Question 5

What is blending?

Answer 5

combining parts of two already existing words smog (smoke+fog)

Question 6

What are the three types of clipping?

Answer 6

Back-clipping: the end is cut off (lab, prof)
Forward-clipping (plane, phone)
Both (flu, fridge)

Question 7

What is clipping?

Answer 7

cutting off part of a word

Question 8

what is back-clipping?

Answer 8

cutting off the end of a word (lab, gym)

Question 9

What is forward-clipping?

Answer 9

the beginning of a word is cut off (plane, phone)

Question 10

What is backformation?

Answer 10

creating a word by removing a real or supposed affix from another word in the language (opposite of affixation) editor: edit, beggar: beg

Question 11

What is conversion?

Answer 11

assigns a new lexical category to an already existing word (Ex: warm up (verb) warmup (noun)

Question 12

What is an acronym?

Answer 12

taking the initial letters of the words in a phrase and pronouncing them as a word (RCMP: pronounced letter-by-letter or NATO pronounced as word)