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Chapt 4: english Morphology (part a)
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Language - English
Undergraduate 3
02/12/2013

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morphology
Definition
the study of word structure
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morpheme
Definition
the smallest sequence of phonemes that has meaning
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agglutinative language
Definition
a language where words are made from strings of relatively stable morphemes
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anaylitic language
Definition
a language that depends mostly on word order for meaning
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synthetic languages
Definition
languages that employ word ending for grammatical function
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number
Definition
whether a word is singular or plural
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case
Definition
grammatical function of a noun, pronoun, adjective, or determiner
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closed morphological cases
Definition
  • in English includes pronouns, conjunctions, and auxilary verbs, prepositions, and inflectional suffixes
  • does not add new members
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open morphological cases
Definition
word forms adapt to new grammatical and semantic demands & new members can be added
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ablaut
Definition
the vowel change in verbs (ie: sing & sang)
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free morphemes
Definition
a word that consists of one morpheme but still has meaning, like a root word (ie:word)
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inflectional morphemes
Definition
modify a verb's tense or a nouns's number without affecting the word's meaning or class (ie: adding -s or -ed to the end of a word)
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derivational morphemes
Definition
a morpheme that creates nouns from verbs (ie: -er, talk to talker)
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affix
Definition
an element of a word that is joined or fixed to the base or root word
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prefix
Definition
preceeds the root word
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infix
Definition
placed, with certain morphological and phonolgical constraints, within a word
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combining form
Definition
bound morphemes that are not affixes
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morphology tree
Definition
a word's hierarchical organization
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lexical gap
Definition
the absience of a word in a language
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nonce word
Definition
a word created for a one time use in a specific context
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Compounding
Definition
Combination of free morphemes
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Prefixing
Definition
Attach a bound morpheme at the beginning of an already exsisting word
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Suffixing
Definition
Attach a bound morpheme to the end of an already exsisting word
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