Chapter 4

Question 1

Affix

Answer 1

one or more additional pieces are tacked onto it.

Question 2

Affixation

Answer 2

morphological discussion

Question 3

Agglutinating Language

Answer 3

morphemes are joined together relatively “loosely”.

Question 4

Allomorph

Answer 4

any of the versions of a morpheme. the plural morpheme.

Question 5

Alternation

Answer 5

to make morpheme internal modifications

Question 6

Ambiguity

Answer 6

associated with more than one meaning.

Question 7

Analytic Language

Answer 7

made up of sequences of free morphemes.

Question 8

Bound Morpheme

Answer 8

Affixes are not the only things that can be bound.

Question 9

Bound Root

Answer 9

words that seem to have some associated basic meaning but are unable to stand alone as words in their own right.

Question 10

Closed Lexical Category

Answer 10

include pronouns, determiners , prepositions and conjunctions.

Question 11

Compounding

Answer 11

process that forms new words not by means of affixes but from two or more independent words.

Question 12

Conjunction

Answer 12

the action or an instance of two or more events or things occurring at the same point in the time or space.

Question 13

Content Word

Answer 13

nouns, verbs, adjective, and adverb.

Question 14

Derivation

Answer 14

takes one word and performs one or more operations on it.

Question 15

Determiner

Answer 15

modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has.

Question 16

Form

Answer 16

what a word sounds like when spoken

Question 17

Free Morpheme

Answer 17

Affixes, always have to be attached to stem of some word in order to be used.

Question 18

Function Morpheme

Answer 18

contain primarily grammatically relevant information.

Question 19

Function Word

Answer 19

prepositions, determiners, pronouns, and conjunctions

Question 20

Fusional Language

Answer 20

words formed by adding bound morphemes to stems.

Question 21

Hierarchical Structure

Answer 21

words that are layered in this way have a special type of structure

Question 22

Homophony

Answer 22

affixes that sound alike but have different meanings or functions

Question 23

Incorporation

Answer 23

a language spoken in India; objects into verbs.

Question 24

Infix

Answer 24

inserted within the root morpheme.

Question 25

Inflection

Answer 25

the creation of different grammatical forms of words.

Question 26

Input

Answer 26

belong to the same lexical category.

Question 27

Lexical Category

Answer 27

classes of words that differ in how other words can be constructed out of them.

Question 28

Lexicon

Answer 28

words available for its users to choose from as they need/

Question 29

Morpheme

Answer 29

the smallest linguistic unit with a meaning or grammatical function.

Question 30

Open Lexical Category

Answer 30

new words added to the language usually belong to categories.

Question 31

Output

Answer 31

normally belong to the same lexical category.

Question 32

Partical Reduplication

Answer 32

part of forming new words

Question 33

Polysynthetic Language

Answer 33

making nouns into parts of the verb forms.

Question 34

Prefix

Answer 34

whereas affixes that precede a stem

Question 35

Productive

Answer 35

forming new words or expressions.

Question 36

Pronoun

Answer 36

a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse.

Question 37

Reduplicant

Answer 37

first syllable of the stem

Question 38

Reduplication

Answer 38

process of forming new owrds by doubling either an entire free morpheme or partic of it.

Question 39

Root

Answer 39

The base word. Example: Catty, Cat is the Root word.

Question 40

Simultaneous Affix

Answer 40

affixes appear at the same time as each other

Question 41

Stem

Answer 41

the thing to which the affixes attach.

Question 42

Suffix

Answer 42

affixes that follow a stem

Question 43

Suppletion

Answer 43

a root have one or more inflected forms phonetically unrelated to the shape of the root.

Question 44

Morphology

Answer 44

component of mental grammar that deals with types of words and how words are formed out of smaller meaningful pieces and other words .

Question 45

Content Morphemes

Answer 45

are said to have more concrete meaning.