Morphology Vocab

Question 1

Morphology

Answer 1

Study of how words are made

Question 2

Borrowing

Answer 2

Taking a word from another language

Question 3

Compounding

Answer 3

Join two existing words together

Question 4

Conversion

Answer 4

Changing the word category/word class

Question 5

Derivation

Answer 5

Add an affix to an existing language

Question 6

Syntactically independent

Answer 6

Can appear as different positions in a sentence

Question 7

Orthographic

Answer 7

Spelling based definition of a word

Question 8

Morpheme

Answer 8

The smallest meaningful unit of language

Question 9

Free morpheme

Answer 9

Stand alone as a word (cat, flower, like)

Question 10

Bound morpheme

Answer 10

Cannot stand alone as a word

Question 11

“Core” morpheme

Answer 11

Root/stems

Question 12

“Satellite” morpheme

Answer 12

Affixes

Question 13

Bases

Answer 13

Whole words utilizing an affix

Question 14

Root

Answer 14

Smallest possible base, cannot be divided, core of the word

Question 15

Affixes

Answer 15

Bound morphemes, cannot function as an independent word

Question 16

Prefix

Answer 16

Before the root

Question 17

Infix

Answer 17

In the root, splits the root

Question 18

Suffix

Answer 18

Follows the root

Question 19

Bound roots

Answer 19

Roots that appear with one or more affixes because they can’t be used as words by themselves

Question 20

Allomorphs

Answer 20

Taking on different shapes depending on the environment

Question 21

Suppletion

Answer 21

Radical form of irregular allomorphy, irregulars with no affixation required

Question 22

Internal change

Answer 22

Alteration of a word to fit its gramatical context (mouse to mice)

Question 23

reduplication

Answer 23

Repeating part or all of a word as a part of morphological pattern

Question 24

Systematic

Answer 24

A given affix will always change the lexical category

Question 25

Isolating/Analytic languages

Answer 25

Where all words are morphologically simple (ie mandarin, Chinese)

Question 26

Synthetic

Answer 26

Languages with a lot of morphological complexity

Question 27

Agglutinative (form of synthetic)

Answer 27

A language with easily sepperated affixes

Question 28

Fusional (form of synthetic)

Answer 28

Many inflectual meanings are combined into single affixes

Question 29

Derivational affix

Answer 29

Results in a different word, changes the lexical category

Question 30

Inflectional affix

Answer 30

Different grammatical form but same word

Question 31

Productivity

Answer 31

Attach freely to any member of the appropriate lexical category

Question 32

Allomorphy

Answer 32

morphemes with consistent meaning, but appear in different forms depending on the environment they occur in

Question 33

“Word Trees”

Answer 33

Reflects the way a word is constructed

Question 34

Binary Branching

Answer 34

Only combine two morphemes

Question 35

Morphological ambiguity

Answer 35

Creating two trees for the same word