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Morphology vocabulary Flashcards

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Affixation

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A linguistic process that involves attaching a morpheme, or affix, to a word to create a new word or form

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Affix

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A grammatical element that is added to a word to change it’s meaning or inflection

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Agglutinating language

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Languages in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes while maintaining their individual meanings and functions

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Allomorph

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A varient form of a morpheme, which is a meaning that can change in sound or spelling without changing it’s meaning

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Alternation

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A variation in the form and/or sound of a word or word part

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Ambiguity

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A language quality that makes written or spoken text open to multiple interpretations

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Analytic language

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A langauge in which the vast majority of morphemes to words, and by the use of word order to indicate grammatical relations

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Bound morpheme

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A word element that cannot stand alone as a word and must be attached to another morpheme to create a word

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Bound Root

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A root which cannot stand alone as a word and must be attached to another morpheme to create a word

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Closed lexical category

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A category of words in a language that has a limited number of members and is not typically open to new additions or changes

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Compounding

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A word that is made up of more than one root or derived word

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Conjunction

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A type of function word that indicates relationships within a language

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Content morpheme

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A word or part of a word that has a clear meaning or expresses a concrete content

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Content Word

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A word that has meaning and contributes to the meaning of a sentence

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Derivation

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The process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as un-or-ness

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Determiner

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A word that modifies, describes, or introduces a noun

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Form

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Describes the physical structure of the material

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Free Morpheme

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A morpheme that can stand alone as a word and has meaning on it’s own

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Function Morpheme

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A morpheme that modifies the meaning of a word by providing grammatical information or relating words in a sentence to each other

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Function word

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Woeds that don’t refer to any meaning but must be there to make a grammatical sentence

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Fusional language

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A morphological system where multiple grammatical functions are conveyed by a single inflectional morpheme

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Hierarchical structure

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It shows how morphemes are grouped together in a specific order to form a word

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Homophony

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When words sound the same but have different meanings

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Incorporation

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A word-formation process that combines a word with another element to create a compound word

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Infix

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An affix inserted inside a word stem

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Inflection

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The study of morphemes that change the grammatical form of a word without creating a new word

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Input

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A structure or analysis of a word

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Lexical category

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Parts of speech, or categories, of words

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Lexicon

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The vocabulary of language

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Morpheme

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The smallest unit of grammatical or semetic meaning in a language

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Morphology

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The study of the internal structure of words

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Open lexical category

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A word class that can easily accommodate new words

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Output

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The stems of a word and the features expressed by other morphemes

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Partial reduplication

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Repeating only part of a word

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Polysynthetic language

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A language where words are made up of many morphemes, or word parts that have independent meaning

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Prefix

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A letter or group of letters that is added to the beginning of a word to change it’s meaning

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Preposition

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Words that can sometimes carry inflectional morphemes from other parts of speech, such as verbs and adjectives

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Pronoun

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The study of the accented parts of connected speech

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Productive

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The ability of an affix or word formation rule to coin new words

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Reduplicant

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The repeated part of a word in a process called reduplication

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Reduplication

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A morphological process that involces repeating part or all of a word to convey a specific meaning

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Simultaneous Affix

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Occurs when multiple mophemes are attached to a word simultaneously

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Stem

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The uninflected part of a word, or the form of a word before affixes are added

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Root

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Morph/ means to shape

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Suffix

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A morpheme added to the end of a base word to change it’s meaning or indicate it’s part of speech

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Suppletion

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A morphological irregularity that occurs when a grammatical category change causes a word form to change

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