Wk8b MoRpHoLoGy Morphological processes, inflection

Question 1

Ways of changing the form of a root to derive new word forms are called…?

Answer 1

Morphological processes

Question 2

_____ _____result in word forms that share the same core meaning but encode different pieces of grammatical information as required by the syntactic context in which word forms appear.

Answer 2

Inflectional processes

Question 3

______ ______result in new lexemes that have a

different core meaning from the original root.

Answer 3

Derivational processes

Question 4

• Inflection: the word formation process that results in word forms that (3)

Answer 4

– belong to the same lexeme
– share the same core meaning
– encode different pieces of grammatical information as required by the syntactic context in which they appear

Question 5

I, me, my, we, us, our all share the same _____ ____ ‘first

person’.

Answer 5

core meaning

Question 6

N_____ and c___ are inflectional features

Answer 6

Number and case

Question 7

Singular and plural, and nominative, accusative and genitive are

Answer 7

inflectional values

Question 8

E______: the relation between a morpheme (root, inflectional

affix) and the meaning(s) and/or function(s) it expresses

Answer 8

Exponence

Question 9

When one morpheme expresses only one meaning

or function, this is called…

Answer 9

simple exponence

eg, books, cats

Question 10

When one morpheme expresses more than one

meanings and/or functions, this is called…

Answer 10

Cumulative exponence

Question 11

a meaning or function is expressed by more

than one morphemes?

Answer 11

Extended exponence