Morphology Vocabulary

Question 1

affix

Answer 1

the prefix un- is easily interpreted as “not” when applied to adjectives, and as a reversing action when applied to verbs, but the prefix con- is more opaque.

Question 2

affixation

Answer 2

the property that certain expressions have of being reproduced in speech as made combinations.

Question 3

agglutinating language

Answer 3

words are formed by joining independent monemes.

Question 4

allomorph

Answer 4

the variants that a morpheme can have in a language.

Question 5

alternation

Answer 5

requires a certain grammatical or lexical pattern to be replaced by others in certain contexts.

Question 6

ambiguity

Answer 6

that can be understood in various ways or admit different interpretations.

Question 7

analytic language

Answer 7

They are those words that are monoformatic and do not present any or very few procedures.

Question 8

bound morpheme

Answer 8

they appear associated with other morphemes to form words.

Question 9

bound root

Answer 9

expresses the main meaning of the word.

Question 10

closed lexical category

Answer 10

category that does not admit flexible morphemes.

Question 11

compounding

Answer 11

they are words that are formed by the union of two or more simple words.

Question 12

conjunction

Answer 12

set of words used to join two or more elements of a sentence or two or more sentences.

Question 13

content morpheme

Answer 13

It is a minimal fragment capable of expressing a meaning.

Question 14

content word

Answer 14

content words are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

Question 15

derivation

Answer 15

the process of attaching an affix to a base. It is a regular procedure of word formation.

Question 16

determiner

Answer 16

they are words that always accompany a noun and specify its meaning.

Question 17

form

Answer 17

manner or manner in which something is done or occurs.

Question 18

free morpheme

Answer 18

morpheme that can exist on its own and make up a word.

Question 19

function morpheme

Answer 19

provides the grammatical value and is always associated with the lexeme.

Question 20

function word

Answer 20

It is the name under which all the words of the language are grouped, distributed by classes, nouns or names, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, prepositions, conjunctions and articles.

Question 21

fusional language

Answer 21

A fusional language is a type of inflectional language.

Question 22

hierarchical structure

Answer 22

It is the way in which we put together and arrange the words to communicate.

Question 23

homophony

Answer 23

It is a word that sounds the same as another, but differs in meaning.

Question 24

incorporation

Answer 24

a part of speech, like a verb, forms a compound with its direct object.

Question 25

infix

Answer 25

with which they are formed, within a derived word or its lexeme or root, derived words.

Question 26

inflection

Answer 26

morphological procedure by which a word changes form according to its grammatical accidents and its dependency relationships.

Question 27

input

Answer 27

language to which the learner is exposed in a communicative context.

Question 28

lexical category

Answer 28

words with referential and semantic content.

Question 29

lexicon

Answer 29

it is the vocabulary of a language or a region, the dictionary of a language.

Question 30

morpheme

Answer 30

provides the grammatical value and is always associated with the lexeme.

Question 31

morphology

Answer 31

the structure of the words.

Question 32

open lexical category

Answer 32

are words with referential and semantic content.

Question 33

output

Answer 33

when you want to say or write something in a language.

Question 34

partial reduplication

Answer 34

in the repetition of a word or group of words in contact within a sentence.

Question 35

polysynthetic language

Answer 35

contains words of many syllables formed by the union of different parts of the sentence.

Question 36

prefix

Answer 36

It is a grammatical element that is attached to the beginning of a word and changes its meaning.

Question 37

preposition

Answer 37

the preposition is an invariable part of the sentence, which does not undergo changes or grammatical accidents.

Question 38

productive

Answer 38

production of language in oral and written form.

Question 39

pronoun

Answer 39

they are words that replace a noun.

Question 40

reduplicant

Answer 40

rhetorical figure that consists of repeating the same word within a paragraph or text.

Question 41

reduplication

Answer 41

consists of the repetition of one or more words at the beginning and at the end.

Question 42

root

Answer 42

is the part of a word that carries the referential meaning.

Question 43

simultaneous affix

Answer 43

particles that unite a word and form derived words, changing the meaning of the word to which they are attached.

Question 44

stem

Answer 44

It is the primitive element of the word and that represents the matrix or main idea signified by it.

Question 45

suffix

Answer 45

It is a type of morpheme that is added after the lexeme or root of the word.

Question 46

suppletion