Vocab

Question 1

Affix

Answer 1

Bound morpheme that attaches to a stem.

Question 2

Affixation

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Process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes.

Question 3

Agglutinating language

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A type of synthetic language in which the relationships between words in a sentence are indicated primarily by bound morphemes.

Question 4

Allomorph

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One of a set of non distinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar.

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Alternation

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In phonology, a difference between two or more phonetic forms that one might expect to be related.

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Ambiguity

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The phenomenon by which a single linguistic form can be the form of more than one distinct linguistic expression.

Question 7

Analytic language

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Type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequences of these free morphemes.

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Bound morpheme

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Morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes, never existing as a word itself.

Question 9

Bound root

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Morpheme that has some associated basic meaning, but that is unable to stand alone as a word in its own right.

Question 10

Closed lexical category

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A lexical category in which the members are fairly rigidly established and additions are made very rarely and only over long periods of time.

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Compounding

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Word formation process by which words are formed through combining two or more independent words.

Question 12

Conjunction

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A lexical category that consists of function words such as and, but, however, etc.

Question 13

Content morpheme

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Morpheme that carries semantic content.

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Content word

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A word whose primary purpose is to contribute semantic content to the phrase in which it occurs.

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Derivation

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In phonology, a process by which an underlying form is changed as phonological rules act upon it.

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Determiner

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The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the, a,this, all, etc.

Question 17

Form

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The structure or shape of any particular linguistic item.

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Free morpheme

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A morpheme that can stand alone as a word.

Question 19

Function morpheme

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Morpheme that provides information about the grammatical relationships between words in a sentence.

Question 20

Function word

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A word that has little semantic content and whose primary purpose is to indicate grammatical relationships between other words in a sentence.

Question 21

Fusional language

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A type of synthetic language in which the relationships between the words in a sentence are indicated by bound morphemes that are difficult to separate from the stem.

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Hierarachical structure

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The dominance relationship among morphemes in a word, or among constituents in a phrase.

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Homophony

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The phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or non phrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form.

Question 24

Incorporation

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Morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in a polysynthetic language.

Question 25

Infix

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A type of bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem.

Question 26

Inflection

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A morphological process whereby the form of a word is modified to indicate some grammatically relevant information, such as person, number, tense, gender, etc.

Question 27

Input

Answer 27

The linguistic form before the application of a rule or a set of rules.

Question 28

Lexical category

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Class of words grouped together based on morphological properties.

Question 29

Lexicon

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A mental repository of linguistic information about words and other lexical expressions.

Question 30

Morpheme

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Smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function.

Question 31

Morphology

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The study of how words are constructed out of morphemes.

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Open lexical category

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A lexical category into which new members are often introduced.

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Output

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The linguistic form obtained after an application of a rule or a set of rules.

Question 34

Partial reduplication

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Morphological reduplication in which only part of a morpheme is reduplicated.

Question 35

Polysynthetic language

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A type of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships.

Question 36

Prefix

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Affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem.

Question 37

Preposition

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The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as of, in, for, with, etc.

Question 38

productive

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Describes a rule that can be applied in novel situations to produce novel grammatical forms.

Question 39

Reduplicant

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The morpheme or part of a morpheme that is repeated.

Question 40

Reduplication

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Process of forming new words by doubling either an entire word or part of a word.

Question 41

Root

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The free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes most semantic content to the word, and to which affixes can attach.

Question 42

Simultaneous affix

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An affix that is articulated a the same time as some other affix or affixes in a word’s stem.

Question 43

Suffix

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Affix that attaches to the end of a stem.

Question 44

Suppletion

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A morphological process between forms of a word wherein one form cannot be phonologically or morphologically derived from the other.