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05/10/2016

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transposition(conversion)
Definition
changing the part of speech without changing the form
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non-isolating analytic language
Definition
have lots of derivational affixes but few (or no) inflectional affixes (english has fewer than a dozen)
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isolating analytic
Definition
analytic languages that don't have many derivational affixes either-rely mainly on root compounding to make new lexical stems
ex: chinese, Vietnameze, and some languages of Africa
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english diminutive
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cloud-cloudlet
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english hypochoristic
Definition
morpheme that marks positive affection ex:dog-doggy
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english attenuative
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green-greenish
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english applicative
Definition
run-outrun, do-outdo
verb-to-verb
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reversative
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do-undo
verb-to-verb
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errative
Definition
quote-misquote
verb-to-verb
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morphological typology
Definition
how word building features compare across languages
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lexemes
Definition
dictionary words-names,set phrases, proverbs
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listemes
Definition
everything listed in our brains-all of lexemes and lexicon, poems, music
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lexicon
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any linguistic unit which occurs in isolation or which has a idiosyncratic or set meaning
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compositional
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read-er someone who reads
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noncompositional
Definition
read-er book used to teach reading
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agglutinating language
Definition
string of synthetic inflections-1 for each grammatical category and usually with only one form
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neologisms
Definition
new words that have become widely accepted
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potential words
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haven't been invented yet, but would be if created
ex: anti-morphologist or vodka-ize
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moderate word form lexicon
Definition
many but not all words are listed and few morphemes
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morphosyntax
Definition
morphological but expresses syntax, grammatical categories words can express
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inflection
Definition
adds syntax related information without changing form class
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inflectional values
Definition
capitalized in morpheme glossing: PAST, COMP, ACC
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inflectional features
Definition
super categories of values, such as number, case, agreement, tense, person
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verbs
Definition
conjugate
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nouns, pronouns, adjectives
Definition
decline
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declension
Definition
different nouns that have different packages
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metagrammatical
Definition
using words to talk about language
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mood
Definition
how you express something
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indicative
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fact
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subjunctive
Definition
subordinated to listeners desires
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hypothetical
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conditional
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progressive aspect
Definition
"was writing"
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perfect aspect
Definition
happened in past but important for future
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plural perfect aspect
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"I had it but my dog ate it"-important for next past thing
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active transitive verb
Definition
has a subject and object ex:the farmer milked the cow
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passive intransitive verb
Definition
only has a subject "the cow was milked by the farmer"
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middle voice intransitive
Definition
verb in transit, "I came" or "I slept"
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infinitive verb
Definition
to verb form "to work"
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gerund verb
Definition
verb that has ing-can function as a noun
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present participle
Definition
verb+adjective at the same time
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past passive participle
Definition
only made from active transitive verbs=having been done
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participle
Definition
noun that is also a verb
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positive degree
Definition
green
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comparative degree
Definition
green-er -COMPR
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superlative degree
Definition
green-est -SUPERL
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negative comparison degree
Definition
less green
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periphrastically
Definition
with more than one word instead of an affix
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synthetic
Definition
lots of inflections (many with more than one function and more than one form)
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analytic
Definition
few inflections (English) word order fairly fixed and many grammatical words present
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case affixes
Definition
inflections because triggered by syntactic rule
ex:Russian verb government
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obligatory inflectional categories of english
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nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives
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inherent inflections
Definition
number, gender, comparative/superlative, have logical exceptions and constraints, can be derivational
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traits of polysynthetic verbs
Definition
discontinuous stem, holophrasis, incorporation
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iteration (recursion)
Definition
sometimes a derivational property but never an inflectional property
ex: great-great-grandmother
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