Applied English for Linguistics ........ Summer 2005
Morphology: Make the BEST matches

_e__ 1 affixation a the lexical category a base belongs to
_i__ 2 affixes b variants (different forms) of a morpheme (example: "indefiniteness" in English has two allomorphs: a and an)
_b__ 3 allomorphs c the process of combining two or more words into one word
_l__ 4 base d nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions (these are the normal categories of roots)
_f__ 5 bound e the process of adding affixes to words
_j__ 6 Class I derivational affixes f a morpheme that must be attached (example: -er)
_v__ 7 Class II derivational affixes g an affix that goes in front of its base (example: unhappy)
_a__ 8 class of base h a kind of affixation that (1) changes the word to a different lexical category, and/or (2) changes the meaning of the word
_z__ 9 complex i types of bound morphemes; includes prefixes, suffixes, and infixes
_n__ 10 compound j cause phonological change in the base (for example: (1) modern to modernization; or (2) public to publicize: the "c" changes from /k/ to /s/)
_c__ 11 compounding k (1) form: a type, or something that has many types
(2) function: the (a) purpose of something, or (a) what something does
(example: "-s" is one form, but it has two functions: derivational and inflectional)
_h__ 12 derivation l any form to which an affix is added (the original form can be more than one morpheme)
_o__ 13 endocentric compound m a morpheme that can be a word by itself (example: train)
_q__ 14 exocentric compound n describes words that are made from two other words (examples: break dance, greenhouse).......note: compound words are complex morphemes
_k__ 15 form and function o

a compound that is a category (subtype) of the head (for example: the compound teacup is a type of the head cup)
_m__ 16 free p your mental dictionary (includes meanings of words, how to use them, and their pronunciation)
_u__ 17 head of a compound q a compound whose meaning does not come from the head (for example: redneck is not a kind of neck) ......... Note: "redneck" describes someone who lives in the countryside, is uneducated and may have strong, unreasonable opinions
_r__ 18 incorporation r a type of compounding: combining nouns with a verb to make a compound verb (example: house + clean = the verb houseclean: He's housecleaning right now.)
_aa__ 19

infix

s the process changing a word's form to show grammatical information (for example: plural, past tense, comparison, etc.)
_s__ 20 inflection t inflection by changing a sound in the morpheme (example: run to ran)
_t__ 21 internal change u the morpheme that determines the lexical category of the compound
_d__ 22 lexical categories v do NOT cause a phonological change when the affix is added (example: hair to hairless -- phonologically hair stays the same)
_p__ 23 lexicon w the study of word structure and word formation
_y__ 24 morpheme x meaning
_w__ 25 morphology y the smallest unit of meaning or function in a language
_g__ 26 prefix z describes words that have two or more morphemes
_ff__ 27 right-headedness aa an affix that goes inside another morpheme (English doesn't do this)
_dd__ 28 root bb inflection by completely changing the morpheme (example: go to went)
_x__ 29 semantic content cc words that are only one morpheme and cannot be divided into smaller parts (examples: boy, dracula)
_cc__ 30 simple words dd the core of a word: the part of the word that carries most of the word's' meaning
(core = the central and/or important part of something)
_ee__ 31 stem ee a special kind of base: a base with an inflectional affix (example: learns)
_gg__ 32 suffix ff a property of English compounds that means the lexical category of the last morpheme on the right determines the lexical category of the compound (example: blackboard in a noun because board is a noun)
_bb__ 33 suppletion gg an affix that goes at the end of its base (example: happiness)