Ch. 4 Morphology

Question 1

Affix

Answer 1

Added piece, suffix and prefix, attached to a stem

Question 2

Affixation

Answer 2

The process of using affixes

Question 3

Agglutinating Language

Answer 3

Synthesis of morphemes

Question 4

Allomorph

Answer 4

Phonetically different forms that belong to the same morpheme

Question 5

Alternation

Answer 5

Morpheme-internal modification

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

Morphemes that cannot stand alone

Question 9

Bound Root

Answer 9

Roots that cannot stand alone

Question 10

Closed Lexical Category

Answer 10

Include pronouns, determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions, and rarely acquire new members

Question 11

Compounding

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Conjuction

Answer 12

A closed lexical category (e.g. and, or, but)

Question 13

Content Morpheme

Answer 13

Carry semantic content and include all derivational affixes, bound roots, and free roots that belong to lexical categories preposition, determiners, pronoun, and conjunctions

Question 14

Content Word

Answer 14

Free content morphemes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs)

Question 15

Derivation

Answer 15

Creating words out of other words

Question 16

Determiner

Answer 16

e.g. a, the, this, your

Question 17

Form

Answer 17

What a word sounds like when spoken

Question 18

Free Morpheme

Answer 18

Simple words that can be used as words all by themselves

Question 19

Function Morpheme

Answer 19

Contain primarily grammatical relevant information; include all inflectional affixes and free roots that belong to lexical categories preposition, determiner, pronoun, or conjunction

Question 20

Function Word

Answer 20

Free function morphemes (prepositions, determiners, pronouns, and conjunctions)

Question 21

Fusional Language

Answer 21

A subtype of synthetic language; words are formed by adding bound morphemes to stems and the affixes may not be easy to separate from the stem

Question 22

Hierarchal Structure

Answer 22

Schematically represented by a tree diagram that indicates the steps involved in the formation of the word

Question 23

Homophony

Answer 23

Affixes that sound alike but have different meanings or functions

Question 24

Incorporation

Answer 24

A built in form

Question 25

Infix

Answer 25

Inserted within the root morpheme

Question 26

Inflection

Answer 26

The creation of different grammatical forms

Question 27

Input

Answer 27

The stems with which a given affix may combine

Question 28

Lexical Category

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Lexicon

Answer 29

Mental dictionary

Question 30

Morpheme

Answer 30

Roots and affixes

Question 31

Morphology

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Open Lexical Category

Answer 32

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; new words added to the language

Question 33

Output

Answer 33

All of the words that are formed when an affix attaches to a stem

Question 34

Partial Reduplication

Answer 34

A process of forming new words by doubling part of a free morpheme

Question 35

Polysynthetic Language

Answer 35

Highly complex words formed by combining several stems and affixes; a matter of making nouns into parts of the verb forms

Question 36

Prefix

Answer 36

Affixes the precede the stem they attach to

Question 37

Preposition

Answer 37

e.g. on, of, under, for

Question 38

Productive

Answer 38

Currently used to make new words

Question 39

Pronoun

Answer 39

e.g. we, she, they

Question 40

Reduplicant

Answer 40

A process of forming new words by doubling either an entire free morpheme or part of it

Question 41

Root

Answer 41

A word in which affixes are built on

Question 42

Simultaneous Affix

Answer 42

When affixes appear at the same time as each other

Question 43

Stem

Answer 43

The thing to which the affixes attach

Question 44

Suffix

Answer 44

Affixes that follow a stem

Question 45

Suppletion

Answer 45

Completely irregular situation