Week 2: morphology Flashcards

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Morphology

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The study of the internal structure of words and the forms of words.

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Morpemes

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The minimal units of languages that carry meaning.

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minimal pair

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a pair of words or phrases that are identical except for a single element and have distinct meaning

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Allomorphs

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a variant phonetic form of a morpheme

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in contrast

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Two linguistic elements that
i) can occur in the same environment
ii) replacing one with the other creates a difference in meaning.

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method of recurring partial with constant meaning

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The process of identifying elements of form which correlate with recurring elements of meaning.

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compositional sentences

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Sentences where the meaning of the sentence is composed in some regular way from the meanings of the individual words.

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Types of evidence used to form hypothesis about the meanings of words:

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a) minimal contract
b) recurring partials
c) pattern-matching

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Free morphemes

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Morphemes which can occur alone as complete words.

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Bound morphemes

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Morphemes which cannot occur alone and must be accompanied by another morpheme.

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Are a) roots and b) affixes free or bound?

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a) Roots can be free or bound (but are more often free).
b) Affixes are always bound

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Roots

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Express the fundamental meaning of the word

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Affixes

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Morphemes which are added to the root and modify its meaning in a consistent way.

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Types of meaning of roots and affixes?

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Roots normally have lexical meaning, affixes normally have grammatical meaning.

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Lexical morphemes

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Contain meanings that are recognisable in the real word.

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Grammatical morphemes

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Have meanings that are intralinguistic.

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Affixes and roots and class?

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Affixes are part of a closed class.
Roots are part of an open class.

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Closed class

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There exists a limited number of morphemes that could be found in the same positions in the word.

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Open class

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There is a (very) large number of morphemes of the same type.

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Prefix

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An affix which occurs before the root.

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Suffix

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An affix which occurs after the root.

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Compound words

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Contain two or more roots.

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Elements belonging to the same position class

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All occur in the same place in a word and only one of them can occur at the same time (i.e. they are mutually exclusive).

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What are the two types of word that we distinguish between?

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Simple words
Complex words (derived and compound)

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Simple words
Contain a (free) morpheme and inflectional suffixes
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Derived words
Contain derivational suffixes
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Derivational affixes
Create new words with new meanings based on other words Tend to alter the lexical category of the root/base
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Inflectional affixes
(In English, always suffixes) They do not alter the meaning but add grammatical information required by the syntactic context/environment.
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Which attaches to the root first: derivational or inflectional affixes?
Derivational affixes
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What are concatenative and non-concatenative morphology?
Stringing morphemes together sequentially. Not stringing morphemes together sequentially
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compositional compounds
The meaning of the compound is derived in some logical way from the two roots.
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endocentric compounds
A compound word with its head at the end. Meaning "a type of..."
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exocentric compounds
The head is not part of the compound. (NOT "a type of")
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What is shortening/clipping?
Reducing the length of a word
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What is the difference between acronyms and abbreviations?
Acronyms are pronounced as one word. In abbreviations, each letter is pronounced individually.
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What is coinage?
Words derived from trademarks or brands, they go from specific to general.
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Gloss
A rough translation of a word
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What are the four broad types of languages (based on morphological features)?
Analytic or isolating Agglutinating Synthetic, fusional or inflectional Polysynthetic
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Analytic language
(Also known as isolating) One morpheme per word
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Agglutinating
Strings of affixes, each marking a single grammatical feature
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Synthetic
(Also known as fusional or inflectional) Single affixes marking several grammatical categories at once or suppletive forms
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What is a portmanteau morpheme?
A phonological sequence that has two or more distinct meanings but cannot be broken down into multiple morphemes
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What is a suppletive form?
A word that is an inflected from of another word even though the words are not related in origin, e.g. go and went
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Polysynthetic
Long strings of affixes or incorporated roots in a single word