Morphology for class

Question 1

affix

Answer 1

bound morpheme that attaches to a stem

Question 2

affixation

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process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes

Question 3

agglutinating language

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type of synthetic language in which the relationships between n words in a sentence are indicated primarily by bound morphemes. joined together loosely so that it is easy to determine where the boundaries between morphemes are

Question 4

allomorph

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one set of nondistinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar

Question 5

ambiguity

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the phenomenon by which a single linguistic form (word or a string of words) can be the form of more than one distinct linguistic expression. The form that is shared by more than one expression is said to be ambiguous

Question 6

analytic language

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type of language in which most words consists of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequences of these free morphemes. Grammatical relationships are often indicated by word order.

Question 7

bound morpheme

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morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes, never existing as a word itself

Question 8

bound root

Answer 8

morpheme that has some associated basic meaning but that is unable to stand alone as a word ion its own right

Question 9

closed lexical category

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Lexical Category in which the members are fairly rigidly established and additions are made very rarely and only over long periods of time

Question 10

compounding

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process of forming words by combining two or more independent words

Question 11

conjunction

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a lexical category that consists off function words such as and , but, however, etc.

Question 12

content morpheme

Answer 12

morpheme that carries semantic content (as opposed to merely performing a grammatical function)

Question 13

content word

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ta word whose primary purpose is to contribute semantic content to the phrase in which it occurs. (all free content morphemes)

Question 14

derivation

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morphological process that changes a words lexical category or its meaning in some predictable way

Question 15

determiner

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name of lexical category and syntactic category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the, a, this, all , etc. Syntactically, consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun to their right result in an expression of category noun phrase.

Question 16

form

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the structure turn or shape of any particular linguistic item, from individual segments to strings of words.

Question 17

free morpheme

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morpheme that can stand alone as a word

Question 18

function morpheme

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morpheme that provides information about the grammatical relationships between other words within a sentence

Question 19

function word

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a word that has little semantic content and whose primary purpose is to Indicate grammatical relationships between other words within a phrase

Question 20

fusional language

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a type of synthetic language in which the relationships between the words in a sentence are indicated by bound morphemes that are difficult to separate from the stem

Question 21

hierarchal structure

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the dominance relationship among morphemes in a word or among constituents in a phrase

Question 22

homophonhy

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the phenomenon by which by which two or more distinct morphemes or non phrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form (sound the same)

Question 23

incorporation

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morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in a polysynthetic language

Question 24

infix

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a type o bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of stem

Question 25

inflection

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a morphological process whereby the form of a word is modified to indicate some grammatically relevant information such as person, number, tense, gender, etc

Question 26

input

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the linguistic form before the application of a rule or a set of rules

Question 27

lexical category

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Class of words grouped together based on morphological properties. Traditionally known as part of speech.

Question 28

lexicon

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a mental repository of linguistic information about words and other lexical expressions , including their form and meaning and their morphological syntactic properties. Asa part of descriptive, not mental, grammar the lexicon is the representation of the mental lexicon expressions

Question 29

morpheme

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smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function

Question 30

morphology

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the study of how words are constructed out of morphemes

Question 31

open lexical category

Answer 31

lexical category into which new members are often introduced

Question 32

output

Answer 32

the linguistic form obtained after an application of a ruler set of rules

Question 33

partial reduplication

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morphological reduplication in which only part of a morpheme is reduplicated

Question 34

polysynthetic language

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a typer of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships

Question 35

prefix

Answer 35

affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem

Question 36

preposition

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the name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as of, in, for, with, etc. Syntactically, this category consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun phrase to their right result in an expression of category prepositional phrase

Question 37

productive

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describes a morpheme or rule (such as a morphological rule stating under what circumstances an affix may be added to a stem)that can be used to produce novel grammatical forms

Question 38

pronoun

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the name of a lexical category that consists of words such s I, she, us, … Syntactically, pronouns belong to the category noun phrase

Question 39

reduplicant

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the morpheme or part of a morpheme that is repeated in reduplication

Question 40

reduplication

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process of forming new words by doubling either an entire word (total duplication) or part of a word (partial reduplication)

Question 41

root

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the free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes most semantic content to the word, and to which affixes attach

Question 42

simultaneous affix

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an affix that is articulated at the same time as some other affix or affixes in a words stem exists only in visual gestural languages