Morphology

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Morphology

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

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Lexicon

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internalized vocabulary/ mental dictionary

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FORM:

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what a word sounds like when spoken

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Meaning:

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what the word refers to

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Derivation:

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Process of creating words out of other words

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Affixes

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the things attached to the stem

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inflection

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Creation of different grammatical forms of a word

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Morpheme

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the smallest linguistic unit with a meaning or grammatical function

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Homophonous function

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different words that sound the same

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free morphemes

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are morphemes the can be used as words all by themselves

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bound morphemes

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cannot stand alone (affixes)

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bound roots

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morphemes that are attached to a word but cannot stand as a word on their own RASP in raspberry. (bound to the rest of the word)

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Content Morphemes

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concrete meaning (refer to a physical attribute)

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Function Morphemes

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primarily grammatically relevant information about the word

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The Hierarchical Structure of Derived words

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can be schematically represented by tree diagram; indicates the steps involved in the formation of the word.

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anthropomorphize

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to endow with human qualities- in morphology to think of the different qualities of what words need to follow their own rules

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Derivational suffix

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is an affix that’s added to a word to create a new word or a new form of a word.

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agentive morpheme

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is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action.

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comparative morpheme

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a word that is made from another word to describe compare (-er in wide vs. wider)

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allomorphs

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different representations of the same morpheme