Week 8- morphology 2

Question 1

How are these words broken up into free morphemes?

colourful
helplessness
username
cranberry
impossible
electricity
disadvantage
insane

Answer 1

colour  ful
help less ness
user name
cranberry
im  possible
electricity
dis advantage
in sane

Question 2

what is etymology?

Answer 2

the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.

Question 3

do we need to store (i.e. list) words like greatness or unhappily in our memory? • or is it enough to store morphemes & rules?

Answer 3

list-rule fallacy = the (mistaken) idea that this is an either - or situation; it is likely that we do both

Question 4

what is derivational morphology?

Answer 4

studies the principles governing the construction of new words, without reference to the specific grammatical role a word might play in a sentence. 
new lexeme is created • (often) new word class is created • not required by gramma

Question 5

what is inflectional morphology?

Answer 5

studies the way in which words vary in order to express grammatical contrasts in sentences.
- lexeme remains the same • word class never changes • required by grammar

Question 6

what is this an example of?

google (n) → google (v)
gift (n) → gift (v)

Answer 6

derivation (or zero derivation)

Question 7

what is suppletion?

Answer 7

Suppletion is the replacement of one stem with another, resulting in an allomorph of a morpheme which has no phonological similarity to the other allomorphs.

Question 8

which word classes are inflected in English?

Answer 8

– nouns – verbs – adjectives – and perhaps determiners (this -> these)

Question 9

what is morphological typology?

Answer 9

Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world (see linguistic typology) that groups languages according to their common morphological structures.