Morph Terms

Question 1

Allomorph

Answer 1

Variant form of a morpheme

Question 2

Analytic Language

Answer 2

Language that marks grammatical function primarily through syntax

Question 3

Analytic / Synthetic Continuum

Answer 3

Continuum that typologists use to classify languages according to morphological “richness.”

Question 4

Arbitrariness of the Lexicon

Answer 4

Fact that nearly all words are arbitrarily related to thier associated concepts and referents

Question 5

Conversion

Answer 5

Change in syntactic category with no corresponding change in word form

Question 6

Derivation

Answer 6

Regular, rule governed change in a lexeme, through processes such as affixation or conversion.

Question 7

Diachronic

Answer 7

Study of language change over time

Question 8

Study of Language Change Over Time

Answer 8

Study of the “original” or “true” meanings of words.

Question 9

Fusion / Fusion Language

Answer 9

Combination of two or more morphemes within one morph.

Question 10

Generative Grammar

Answer 10

A rule system that generates all and only the acceptable strings of a language as determined by NS

Question 11

Homograph

Answer 11

One of two or more words that have the same spelling but may have different sounds and also have different unrelated meanings

Question 12

Homonym

Answer 12

Word from associated with two or more unrelated meanings but all with same sounds, same spelling

Question 13

Homophone

Answer 13

One of two or more words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have unrelated meanings

Question 14

Iconic

Answer 14

Sign that resembles what it means

Question 15

Indexical

Answer 15

Sign that is non-arbitrarily related to its meaning.

Question 16

Inflection

Answer 16

Morphological marking of word forms for a grammatical purpose

Question 17

Isolating

Answer 17

Language that has little or no morphological marking

Question 18

Lexeme

Answer 18

The citation form of a word and all of its inflected forms

Question 19

Lexicon

Answer 19

The mental repository of morphemes and words in an individual’s long term memory

Question 20

Meta-Language

Answer 20

The language one uses to perform analysis (on an object language)

Question 21

Morph

Answer 21

A form associated with one or more morphemes

Question 22

Morpheme

Answer 22

Smallest unit of meaning or grammar

Question 23

Object Language

Answer 23

The language under analysis

Question 24

Polyseme, Polysemous, Polysemy

Answer 24

The various related meanings of a word form

Question 25

Polysynthetic

Answer 25

Language that marks most or all grammatical functions on word forms

Question 26

Reanalysis (of word forms)

Answer 26

Process where NS unconsciously reassign morphological structure to an existing word form

Question 27

Simple Word Form vs Complex Word Form

Answer 27

Simple word forms have only one morpheme; complex forms have more than one

Question 28

Synchronic

Answer 28

Study of language that is focused on NS current knowledge of a language

Question 29

Syncretism

Answer 29

Use of the same word form for two or more syntactic (grammatical) purposes

Question 30

Universal Grammar

Answer 30

Underlying system of language principles that is assumed to genetically inherited.

Question 31

Morphology

Answer 31

The rules of word formation and structure

Question 32

Etymology

Answer 32

History of words. The study of historical linguistic change, specially as manifested in individual words.