morphology vocabulary

Question 1

affix

Answer 1

bound morpheme that occurs before or after a base.

Question 2

affixation

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the process of adding a morpheme of affix in a word to create a different form or state of the word.

Question 3

agglutinating language

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is a language that has morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic and where each morpheme corresponds to a single lexical meaning.

Question 4

allomorph

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nondistinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar. alternative representation of the morphemes.

Question 5

alternation

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phenomenon of a morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological variation.

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ambiguity

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the state of a word, phrase or sentence that has more than one meaning.

Question 7

analytic language

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any language that uses specific grammatical words or particles rather than inflection to express syntactic relations within sentences.

Question 8

bound morpheme

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morphemes that cannot stand alone, it does not have its own meaning.

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closed lexical category

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a type of lexical categories that rarely acquire new members such as conjunction, determiners, pronouns, and prepositions.

Question 10

conjuction

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words that are used to connect clauses and sentences.

Question 11

content morpheme

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express concrete meaning or content

Question 12

content word

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a word that primarily expresses lexical meaning. Open to invention of arbitrary new items.

Question 13

derivation

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making new words form old ones.

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determiner

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belongs to closed lexical category that give a direction on the following word within the sentence.

Question 15

form

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a state of a word that indicates the current meaning

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free morphemes

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words or morphemes that can stand on its own which possess meaning .

Question 17

bound root

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a class of morpheme that cannot stand alone with meaning.

Question 18

free morpheme

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morphemes that can stand alone with specific meaning.

Question 19

function morpheme

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express syntactic relationships between units in a sentence.

Question 20

hierarchical structure

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levels of the components of language.

Question 21

homophony

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when set of words are pronounced identically, but have different meanings. it is not necessary for homophonic words to spelled the same way.

Question 22

incorporation

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a phenomenon by which a word usually a verb, that forms a kind of compound with.

Question 23

infix

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add-on after the first initial consonant of the word, which indicates the form of the word.

Question 24

inflection

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is one of the main types of morphological operations by which an affix is added to a word.

Question 25

input

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refers to that exposure learners have to authentic language in use.

Question 26

lexical category

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is used for the major parts of speech noun, verg and adjective.

Question 27

lexicon

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personal vocabulary of the person.

Question 28

morpheme

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unit of a word that has meaning or no meaning. It helps indicate the meaning of the word.

Question 29

morphology

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the study of structures of a word and relationships to other words.

Question 30

open lexical category

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is open if the new word and the original word belong to the same category. Nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs belong to open lexical category.

Question 31

output

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derived stem of the word or morpheme.

Question 32

partial reduplication

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repetition of phonologically defined subconstituent of a word with a potential concomitant phonological modifications.

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polysynthetic language

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languages in which words are composed of many morphemes. Highly synthetic languages.

Question 34

prefix

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affixes that precede after the stem of the word.

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preposition

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indicate relationships between other words in the sentence.

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pronoun

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words that replace nouns which indicate definitive meaning of the noun.

Question 37

reduplication

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repetition of part or all one linguistic constituent to form a new constituent with a different function, occurs at many points on a spectrum from a phonologically defined partial reduplication to the repetition of syntactic phrases.

Question 38

root

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a word or part of a word that can form the basis of new words.

Question 39

simultaneous affix

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an affix is articulated at the same time, as some other affix or affixes in a word stem. exist only is visual-gestural languages.

Question 40

productive

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describes a rule under what circumstances an affix may be added to stem that can applied into novel situations to produce novel grammatical forms.

Question 41

stem

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the base, consisting of one or more morphemes to which some affix are added. Always includes roots.

Question 42

suffix

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affixes that follow a stem.

Question 43

suppletion

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morphological process between forms of a word, where in one form cannot be phonological or morphological derived from the other.