Morphology Vocabulary Flashcards

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affix

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an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning.

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affixation

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the process of inflection or derivation that consists of adding an affix.

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agglutinating language

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An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination

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allomorph

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any of two or more actual representations of a morpheme.

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alternation

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the repeated occurrence of two things in turn.

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ambiguity

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the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.

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analytic language

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is a type of natural language in which a series of root/stem words is accompanied by prepositions, postpositions, particles and modifiers

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bound morpheme

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a word element that cannot stand alone as a word, including both prefixes and suffixes

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bound root

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a root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme

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closed lexical category

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the category of function words—that is, parts of speech (or word classes)—that don’t readily accept new members

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compounding

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the act of combining two lexemes to make a new word

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conjunction

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a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

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content morpheme

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a root that forms the semantic core of a major class word

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content word

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are words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur

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derivation

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in generative grammar, the set of stages that link the abstract underlying structure of an expression to its surface form

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determiner

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a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every

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form

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the constituent structure in language, involving phonological and syntactic rules for interpreting speech and sentences

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free morpheme

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a stand-alone word

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function morpheme

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is a morpheme which simply modifies the meaning of a word, rather than supplying the root meaning

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function word

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expresses a grammatical or structural relationship with other words in a sentence

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fusional language

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a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single

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hierarchical structure

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the delegation of authority using a pyramid model, with the most authoritative professionals at the top and general employees at the bottom

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homophony

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the linguistic phenomenon whereby words of different origins become identical in pronunciation

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incorporation

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is a phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object

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infix
an affix inserted inside a word stem
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inflection
a process of word formation in which a word is modified
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input
the exposure learners have to authentic language in use
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lexical category
a class of lexical items
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lexicon
the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject
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morpheme
the smallest grammatical unit of speech
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morphology
is the study of words
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open lexical category
parts of speech (or word classes) that readily accept new members
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output
the language the learner produces
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partial reduplication
reduplication of only a part of a word
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polysynthetic language
formerly holophrastic languages, [1] are highly synthetic languages, ie, languages in which words are composed of many morphemes.
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prefix
an affix attached to the beginning of a word, base, or phrase and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form
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preposition
a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object
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productive
writing an original essay or describing an unfamiliar situation to another person
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pronoun
a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase
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reduplicant
is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word
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reduplication
is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word
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root
is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements
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simultaneous affix
an affix that takes place at the same time as its base
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stem
a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning
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suffix
letters added to the end of a base word to change its conjugation, word type, or other grammar properties like plurality
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suppletion
a form of morphological irregularity whereby a change in a grammatical category triggers a change in word form, with a different (suppletive) root substituting for the normal one