Morphology Flashcards

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What is a lexical morpheme?

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A morpheme that is contentful.

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What is a free morpheme?

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A morpheme that can stand on its own.

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What is a bound morpheme?

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A morpheme that must be affixed to another to make sense.

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What are open class content words?

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Words that can be looked up in a dictionary and have new words added to them.

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What are closed class function words?

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Words like conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns, as new ones haven’t been added to the English language recently.

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What is a morpheme?

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The smallest meaningful unit of a word.

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What is a derivational morpheme?

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A morpheme which changes the meaning of a word or its word class.

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What is an inflectional morpheme?

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A word that adds grammatical info - like plurality or past tense - without changing the meaning or word class.

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What is English’s word order?

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SVO. Subject, verb, object.

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Name 5 syntactic categories.

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Determiner, adjective, adverb, noun, verb.

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What are the 8 inflectional morphemes in the English language?

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Plural ‘s’
Possessive ‘s’ – the boy’s book
Present tense – ‘s’ I walk, you walk, he/she/it walks.
Progressive ‘ing’ – I was walking.
Past tense ‘ed’ – I walked.
Past participle – I have eaten.
Comparative ‘-er’ – Big and bigger.
Superlative ‘-est’ – Big, bigger, biggest.

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What is the root of a word?

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A morphologically simple unit that can be left blank or with which a prefix or suffix can be attached (affix).

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What is an affix?

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An addition to the base or stem form of a word to change its meaning or create a new word.

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Are lovelier and singer the same morpheme?

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No, as the meaning of a morpheme must remain constant. Loveli-er means ‘more’, sing-er means ‘one who does.’

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Where is grammar?

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In the mind.

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