morphology and lexicology

Question 1

word classes (open + closed)

Answer 1

open= nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, interjections
closed= modal verbs, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, pronouns, determiners, prepositions

Question 2

affixation

Answer 2

prefix
suffix
infix

Question 3

suffixation in Australian English

Question 4

word loss/ word-formation processes

Answer 4

blends, acronyms, initialisms, shortenings, compounding, contractions, collocations, neologisms, borrowings, commonisation, archaism

Question 5

morphological patterning

Answer 5

conversion of word class, creative word formation

Question 6

intensifiers

Answer 6

adverbs or adverbial phrases that strengthen the meaning of other expressions and show emphasis

support postive face - seek more connection wiht someone.

Question 7

titles / honorifics

Answer 7

mr, sir, prime mister

can support negative face - reinforces a persons status, hierachies, identity of another. appeal to respect and not over breach boundaries.

Question 8

jargon

Answer 8

fancy words from a specific semantic fireld -> ^formality

Question 9

older classical affixes

Answer 9

im- , -ity, dis-, -ness , un-

Question 10

contemporary affixation

Answer 10

uber- , hyper-

more informal in nature

Question 11

compounding

Answer 11

lexically dense NP- impenetrable

Question 12

acyroyms / initalism

Answer 12

can be formal in nature - specialist domain

VCE, SAC, ATAR

Question 13

lexical in formal

Answer 13

can be manipulated to reflect what readers should read, euphemism, specialist semanitc fields.