Morphology

Question 1

Affix

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An additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning.

Question 2

Affixation

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Is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme, an affix, is attached to a morphological base. Employ for derivation of new words and word forms. The most common.

Question 3

Agglutinating language

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A morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic and where each morpheme corresponds to a single lexical meaning.

Question 4

Allomorph

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Any versions of a morpheme, such as the plural endings for the plural morpheme. Example, s (as in bats ), z (as in bugs ), and iz (as in buses).

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Alternation

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An alternation is the phenomenon of a morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological realization.

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Ambiguity

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The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.

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Analytic language

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A language that primarily conveys relationships between words in sentences by way of helper words (particles, prepositions, etc.). Word order, as opposed to utilizing inflections. changing the form of a word to convey its role in the sentence.

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Bound Morpheme

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That can appear only as part of a larger expression

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Bound Root

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A root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme.

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Closed Lexical Category

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The closed classes in English include pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, and prepositions.

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Compounding

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That is, in familiar terms, compounding occurs when two or more words or signs are joined to make one longer word or sign.

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Conjunction

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Elements that link two or more words, phrases, clauses, or sentences within a larger unit, in such a way that a specific semantic relation is established between them.

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Content Morpheme

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A root that forms the semantic core of a major class word.

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Content Word

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Are words that name objects of reality and their qualities.

Question 15

Derivation

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The set of stages that link the abstract underlying structure of an expression to its surface form.

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Determiner

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A word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context.

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Form

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A meaningful unit of speech. A morpheme, word, or sentence.

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Free Morpheme

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That can stand alone as a word.

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Function Morpheme

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Which simply modifies the meaning of a word, rather than supplying the root meaning.

Question 20

Function Word

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A word whose purpose is more to signal grammatical relationship than the lexical meaning of a sentence.

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Fusional Language

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Which one form of a morpheme can simultaneously encode several meanings.

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Hierarchical Structure

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Is the edifice of essentials from one stage to the other stage.

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Homophony

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when a set of words are pronounced identically, but have different meanings.

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Incorporation

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A phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.

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Infix

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Is an affix inserted inside a word stem.

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Inflection

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The change in the form of a word (in English, usually the addition of endings) to mark such distinctions as tense, person, number, gender, mood, voice, and case.

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Input

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Refers to the exposure learners have to authentic language in use

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Lexical Category

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A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behavior of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb.

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Lexicon

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Is a language's inventory of lexemes.

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Morpheme

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The smallest meaningful unit in a language. A morpheme is not identical to a word.

Question 31

Morphology

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The study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.

Question 32

Open Lexical Category

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If the new word and the original word belong to the same category.

Question 33

Output

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The more you do both things, the better you'll get at them.

Question 34

Partial reduplication

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Is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

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Polysynthetic Language

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Highly synthetic languages. For example, languages in which words are composed of many morphemes.

Question 36

Prefix

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Which is placed before the stem of a word. Performative.

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Preposition

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Defined as words that “link to other words, phrases, and clauses” and that “express spatial or temporal relations.

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Productive

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Is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation.

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Pronoun

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A pronoun has been theorized to be a word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase.

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Reduplicant

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The reduplicated segment in a word resulting from a reduplication process.

Question 41

Reduplication

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Reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

Question 42

Root

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The root in language is either a base word, or a part of a word to which affixes are added.

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Simultaneous Affix

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Articulated at the same time as some other affix or affixes in a word's stem; exists only in visual-gestural languages.

Question 44

Stem

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Stem is a part of a word used with slightly different meanings.

Question 45

Suffix

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Is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Sometimes termed postfix.

Question 46

Suppletion

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Is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate.