Applied English for Linguistics ........ Summer 2005
Morphology: Make the BEST matches
| ___ 1 | affixation | a | the process of adding affixes to words |
| ___ 2 | affixes | b | types of bound morphemes; includes prefixes, suffixes, and infixes |
| ___ 3 | allomorphs | c | variants (different forms) of a morpheme (example: "indefiniteness" in English has two allomorphs: a and an) |
| ___ 4 | base | d | any form to which an affix is added (the original form can be more than one morpheme) |
| ___ 5 | bound | e | a morpheme that must be attached (example: -er) |
| ___ 6 | Class I derivational affixes | f | cause phonological change in the base (for example: (1) modern to modernization; or (2) public to publicize: the "c" changes from /k/ to /s/) |
| ___ 7 | Class II derivational affixes | g | do NOT cause a phonological change when the affix is added (example: hair to hairless -- phonologically hair stays the same) |
| ___ 8 | class of base | h | the lexical category a base belongs to |
| ___ 9 | complex | i | describes words that have two or more morphemes |
| ___ 10 | compound | j | describes words that are made from two other words (examples: break dance, greenhouse).......note: compound words are complex morphemes |
| ___ 11 | compounding | k | the process of combining two or more words into one word |
| ___ 12 | derivation | l | a kind of affixation that (1) changes the word to a different lexical category, and/or (2) changes the meaning of the word |
| ___ 13 | endocentric compound | m | a compound that is a category (subtype) of the head (for example: the compound teacup is a type of the head cup) |
| ___ 14 | exocentric compound | n | 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 |
| ___ 15 | form and function | o |
(1) form: a type, or something that has many types |
| ___ 16 | free | p | a morpheme that can be a word by itself (example: train) |
| ___ 17 | head of a compound | q | the morpheme that determines the lexical category of the compound |
| ___ 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.) |
| ___ 19 |
infix |
s | an affix that goes inside another morpheme (English doesn't do this) |
| ___ 20 | inflection | t | the process changing a word's form to show grammatical information (for example: plural, past tense, comparison, etc.) |
| ___ 21 | internal change | u | inflection by changing a sound in the morpheme (example: run to ran) |
| ___ 22 | lexical categories | v | nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions (these are the normal categories of roots) |
| ___ 23 | lexicon | w | your mental dictionary (includes meanings of words, how to use them, and their pronunciation) |
| ___ 24 | morpheme | x | the smallest unit of meaning or function in a language |
| ___ 25 | morphology | y | the study of word structure and word formation |
| ___ 26 | prefix | z | an affix that goes in front of its base (example: unhappy) |
| ___ 27 | right-headedness | aa | 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) |
| ___ 28 | root | bb | 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) |
| ___ 29 | semantic content | cc | meaning |
| ___ 30 | simple words | dd | words that are only one morpheme and cannot be divided into smaller parts (examples: boy, dracula) |
| ___ 31 | stem | ee | a special kind of base: a base with an inflectional affix (example: learns) |
| ___ 32 | suffix | ff | an affix that goes at the end of its base (example: happiness) |
| ___ 33 | suppletion | gg | inflection by completely changing the morpheme (example: go to went) |
What are these nouns?
verb |
noun ??? |
adjective |
adverb |
| head, headedness | head | ||
| ---------- | ---------- | semantic | semantically |
| derive | 1 _______________ | derivational | ---------- |
| inflect | 2 _______________ | inflectional | ---------- |
| ---------- | 3 _______________ | lexical | ---------- |
| affix | 4 _______________ | ---------- | ---------- |
| compound | 5 _______________ | compound, compounded | ---------- |
| incorporate | 6 _______________ | incorporated |