Test 3/ Morphology | LING 2100 - The Study of Language, Quizzes of Linguistics

Download Test 3/ Morphology | LING 2100 - The Study of Language and more Quizzes Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Morphology DEFINITION 1 the study of word-making; the study of internal structure of words; their meaningful parts (division), pronunciations TERM 2 Morpheme DEFINITION 2 the smallest meaningful unit in a language TERM 3 free morpheme DEFINITION 3 morphemes that can stand alone as independent words in a sentence. They're basically roots TERM 4 Bound morphenes DEFINITION 4 morphemes that must be attached to another morpheme (prefix, suffix, infix, circumfix). ex. re-, -ed (can't be used by themselves) TERM 5 Derivational Morphemes DEFINITION 5 either bound morphemes which can change the part of speech of the original morpheme or the bound morphemes which can change the meaning of the words drastically, such as prefixesex. boy --> boyish (noun--> adjective) TERM 6 Inflectional Morphemes (Bound Morphemes) DEFINITION 6 bound morphemes which can provide grammatical meanings (8 suffixes in English) TERM 7 Homophonous Morphemes DEFINITION 7 sound the same but have different meanings Free morphemes: too, two, to [thu]Bound morphemes: make words plural (s, s'/'s, s, er) TERM 8 Content Morphemes DEFINITION 8 provide semantic content (Noun, verb, adjectives, adverbs, derivational) TERM 9 Function Morphemes DEFINITION 9 provide grammatical function (preposition, articles, pronouns, conjunctions, inflectional morphemes) make plural TERM 10 affixation DEFINITION 10 prefix, suffix, infix (Tagalog? morpheme inside the word) circumfix (German)