Morphology and Lexicology.

Question 1

Free Morpheme

Answer 1

Stand alone; they are words in their own right.

Question 2

Bound Morpheme

Answer 2

Cannot stand independently, they must be attached to free morphemes.

Question 3

Inflectional Bound Morpheme

Answer 3

Do not change the meaning or word class: they simply change the plurality, possession, or tense. Must be suffixes

Question 4

Derivational Bound Morpheme.

Answer 4

Change the meaning of words, create new words and can change the world class. Can be prefixes or suffixes.

Question 5

Root Morpheme

Answer 5

The semantic base or centre of a word. May be a free morpheme or a bound one.

Question 6

Affix

Answer 6

A morpheme that is added to a word.

Question 7

Prefix

Answer 7

Affixes in front of words

Question 8

Suffix

Answer 8

Affixes at the end of the word

Question 9

Infix

Answer 9

Affixes in the middle of the world (non standard)

Question 10

Noun

Answer 10

Words that name people, places, things, qualities or actions.

Question 11

Common noun

Answer 11

General Item

Question 12

Proper noun

Answer 12

Specific

Question 13

Collective noun

Answer 13

Refers to a group

Question 14

Concrete common noun

Answer 14

Touchable, can be known through the senses.

Question 15

Abstract common noun.

Answer 15

Words that are only ideas, concepts, emotions.

Question 16

Plural noun

Answer 16

Nouns that are plural. Regular when you add s or es. Irregular when anything else happens.

Question 17

Adjective

Answer 17

Define or modify nouns.

Question 18

Adverbs

Answer 18

Modify verbs or adjectives. The types of adverbs are time, frequency, manner, place, degree.

Question 19

Verbs

Answer 19

Denote actions, processes and states.

Question 20

Auxiliary verb

Answer 20

Modify and change some aspect of the main verb.

Question 21

Modal verb

Answer 21

A special category of Auxillary verb. Include can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, and might, and must.

Question 22

Determiners

Answer 22

Noun phrases and function as modifiers. Point to a noun.

Question 23

Pronoun

Answer 23

Replaces nouns. Words such as he, his etc.

Question 24

Proposition

Answer 24

Show the relationship between a noun and other words. They position things in space or in time. Words include”with”, “by”, “under”

Question 25

Interjection

Answer 25

Words that contain strong emotion or feeling such as "Ouch", "Oh, No"

Question 26

Conjunction

Answer 26

Words that connect words or elements of a sentence.

Question 27

Coordinating conjunction

Answer 27

FANBOYS. Link words, phrases and clause together.

Question 28

Subordinating conjunction

Answer 28

Only join clauses together. Words such as "becasuse, if, then."

Question 29

Function Words

Answer 29

Perform a Job. Determiner, pronoun, Auxillary verbs, modal verbs, prepositions, conjunction, interjections.

Question 30

Content Words

Answer 30

Carry Real meaning. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs/

Question 31

World Loss

Answer 31

When we acquire new words and lose words.

Question 32

Elevation

Answer 32

When a word gets more use.

Question 33

Deterioration

Answer 33

A word that gets less use. Words that die out.

Question 34

Neologisms

Answer 34

New words "Google"

Question 35

Archaism

Answer 35

Old words. E.G "Thy, thou"

Question 36

Blends

Answer 36

Words that are produced by merging parts of two words to create a new one. Brother and Romance ---> Bromance.

Question 37

Initialisms

Answer 37

Words that are made up of beginning letters in a sequence of words, and are said as a series of letters. E.G RSPCA.

Question 38

Acronyms

Answer 38

Words that are made up of beginning letters in a sequence of words, and are said as words. E.G SCUBA, LOL.

Question 39

Shortenings

Answer 39

When the beginning or end of the word is removed. Refridgerator ---> Fridge.

Question 40

Compounding

Answer 40

Words created by putting two free morphemes together. E.G blueberry, Facebook.

Question 41

Conversion

Answer 41

Converting words from one word class to another. E.G Email ---> Email. Noun to a verb.

Question 42

Contractions

Answer 42

Words like Don't. Common in English.

Question 43

Collocations

Answer 43

Words that are closely associated with each other. "Safe and Sound". "Bread and butter".

Question 44

Borrowing

Answer 44

When we take words from other languages. E.G Cafe Silhouette.

Question 45

Commonisation.

Answer 45

When names of brands turn into common names of a specific thing. E.G "Esky, Bandaid."

Question 46

Morphology

Answer 46

The study of the form of language. How words a put together.

Question 47

Lexicology

Answer 47

The study of the form, meaning, and behaviour of words.

Question 48

Morpheme

Answer 48

A morpheme is the smallest written unit that still has meaning as a whole.