Morphology (Part1)

Question 1

Universal Grammar

Answer 1

Innate principles and parameters a person has/knows about grammar
Underlying mental system

Question 2

Lexicon

Answer 2

Language’s inventory of words

Question 3

What are the 3 classes of words?

Answer 3

1. Lexical content words
2. Function words
3. Morphemes

Question 4

Lexical Content Words

Answer 4

Have referential meaning
Open class words

Question 5

Function words

Answer 5

Express grammatical meanings and relations

Closed class

Question 6

What syntactic categories of words are part of the lexical content words?

Answer 6

1. Noun
2. Adjective
3. Verb
4. Adverb

Question 7

What syntactic categories of words are part of function words?

Answer 7

1. Article
2. Preposition
3. Conjunction
4. Pronoun

Question 8

Morpheme

Answer 8

Smallest unit of linguistic meaning

Question 9

What governs the internal structure of word?

Answer 9

Rule. Rule-governed.

Question 10

Root

Answer 10

Irreductible core of a word, with nothing else attached to it.
Part that must always be present
Carries the basic meaning of the word

Question 11

Free root morpheme/Free base

Answer 11

Single morpheme that constitutes a word by itself

Question 12

Bound root morpheme/Bound base

Answer 12

Morpheme that only occur in words when attached to other morphemes
Only acquire meaning in combination with certain other morphemes

Question 13

4 types of bound root morphemes.

Answer 13

1. Prefixes
2. Suffixes
3. Infixes
4. Circumfixes

Question 14

Infixes

Answer 14

Morpheme insert into a root morpheme

Question 15

Circumfixes

Answer 15

Morpheme attached to the beginning and the end of a root morpheme

Question 16

2 types of affixes

Answer 16

1. Derivational morphemes

2. Inflectional morphemes

Question 17

Derivational morphemes

Answer 17

Change the meaning or the part of speech
Not require by syntax
Not very productive (Do not occur with a lot of word)
Before inflectional morpheme
Prefixes or suffixes

Question 18

Inflectional morphemes

Answer 18

Refines and give grammatical information about an existing meaning
Serve a grammatical function
Do not change the meaning or part of speech
Very productive
After derivational morphemes
Suffixes only in English

Question 19

Stem

Answer 19

Part of the word that exist before any inflectional affixes have been added