Inflection

Question 1

What is inflection

Answer 1

It alters a word. It does not change syntactic category

Question 2

Which one is most productive between inflection and derivation

Answer 2

Inflection

Question 3

In which way is inflection productive

Answer 3

It attaches to almost all words of relevant syntactic category. It fills in a paradigm.

Question 4

What is derivation

Answer 4

Creation of a new word

Question 5

Does derivation change the syntactic category

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Why is derivation somewhat productive

Answer 6

Because it only attaches to some words of the relevant syntactic category.

Question 7

What is the meaning and syntactic category of s

Answer 7

Noun, plural

Question 8

What is the meaning and syntactic category of ‘s

Answer 8

Noun, possession

Question 9

What is the meaning and syntactic category of s

Answer 9

V, 3rd sing

Question 10

What is the meaning and syntactic category of ed

Answer 10

V, past

Question 11

What is the meaning and syntactic category of en-ed

Answer 11

V, perfect

Question 12

What is the meaning and syntactic category of ing

Answer 12

V, progressive

Question 13

What is the meaning and syntactic category of er

Answer 13

Adj, comparative

Question 14

What is the meaning and syntactic category of est

Answer 14

Adj, superlative

Question 15

Can inflection change a the syntactic category?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

acid to acidic- is that inflection or derivation

Answer 16

derivation

Question 17

What is Semantic transparency

Answer 17

How predictable a whole is from its parts.

Question 18

T or F; all morphology is compositional

Answer 18

T

Question 19

What happens when there is no transparency

Answer 19

The word is not compositional

Question 20

What do we call when morphology is completely transparent

Answer 20

Inflectional

Question 21

What do we call when the morphology is opaque

Answer 21

Derivational

Question 22

Note

Answer 22

All morphology is at least a little transparent

Question 23

What attaches first, inflection affixes or derivational affixes?

Answer 23

derivational affixes always closer to root.

Question 24

Can a word have more than one inflectional affix

Answer 24

No

Question 25

Inflectional are always placed where

Answer 25

Always attaches last, suffix. highest one in the tree

Question 26

prefix is where?

Answer 26

before

Question 27

Where are infixes

Answer 27

Inside a base

Question 28

Is [re] in non-re-fund-able an infix?

Answer 28

No its not inside the base

Question 29

What is at least one English infix

Answer 29

Expletive

Question 30

What does an expletive mean

Answer 30

emotional curse word or rude phrase.

Question 31

Are the expletive infixes phonologically conditioned ?

Answer 31

Yes. They are inserted before stressed syllables.

Question 32

If a word has an initial stress how the infix act?

Answer 32

like a prefix

Question 33

Prefix and afix are concatenative or non-concatenative?

Answer 33

Concatenative, attaching affix to base. Represented by morphological tree.

Question 34

What is non-concatenative morphology?

Answer 34

Altering the base (also known as internal change). Infixation - can't be represented in morphological trees.

Question 35

What is Ablaut. give example

Answer 35

vowel alteration that marks a morphological contrast. Run - ran.

Question 36

Are ablaut concatenative or non-concatenative.

Answer 36

Non-concatenative

Question 37

does ablaut consist in adding morphemes?

Answer 37

No. Alternating vowels are not morphemes (goose - geese) goose is one morpheme on its own, oo doesnt mean singular

Question 38

Is Ablaut common in other languages

Answer 38

Yes -latin, icelandic

Question 39

What are Bound roots

Answer 39

roots that only survive in complex words, dont stand on their own.

Question 40

Which class of english affixes is fully productive

Answer 40

Class 2

Question 40

Examples of bound roots

Answer 40

Un[kempt] , cranberry

Question 40

Roots that were borrowed in complex words

Answer 40

ceive - receive, deceive, conceive (from latin 'take') mit - permit, submit, commit (from latin 'send')

Question 40

Class 1 of affixes are borrowed from where

Answer 40

Latin, Greek, French

Question 41

Class 2 are inherited from where

Answer 41

germanic - native

Question 41

What does class 1 do

Answer 41

It changes the sound of segment of the base; part - partial, revise- revision, product - productive

Question 42

Class 2 are phonologically neutral meaning that

Answer 42

they don't do anything to the phonology of the base

Question 43

Class one or two go on much wider range of words and new words

Answer 43

Class 2

Question 44

What is the order of classes

Answer 44

Class one closer to the root rather than class 2. Classe 2 cannot be between root and class 1.

Question 45

Can we put two class 2 affix de suite?

Answer 45

Yes; fear-less-ness

Question 46

Can we put two class 1 affixes de suite?

Answer 46

Yes - relational

Question 47

Can we put class 2 followed by class 1

Answer 47

No

Question 48

Can we put class 1 followed by class 2

Answer 48

Yes

Question 49

Are class 1 and class 2 inflectional or derivational

Answer 49

derivational

Question 50

what are the class 1 affixes

Answer 50

-ity -y -ize -ion - ive -(i)al

Question 51

English prefer preffixes or suffixes

Answer 51

suffixes

Question 52

What are the class 2 affix

Answer 52

-ful, -ness, -less, -ly, -er, -ish

Question 53

What is the order of inflectional and derivational affixes. What's closer to the base

Answer 53

Derivational affixes closer to root than inflectional affixes.