Ling 111-Exam 2, Morphology I

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Morphology

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the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context (words in a lexicon are the subject matter of lexicology)

..the study of the structure of words

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Morpheme..smallest linguistic unit with either ________ or _______

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Meaning or grammatical function

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Another thing that Morphology studies

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regularities that govern how
morphemes are allowed to combine to form words.

Not all combinations and orders possible of morphemes

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Free morphemes (vs. bound)

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Can stand alone as word

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Bound morphemes (vs. free)

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cannot stand alone as a word

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Root (vs. affixes)

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morpheme that carries main part of meaning

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Affixes (vs. root)

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not central part of meaning, change meaning
slightly, fulfill grammatical function

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All affixes are ________ morphemes

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bound morphemes

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All free morphemes are ______

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root

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Prefix

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affixes that precede the root

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Suffixes

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affixes that follow the root

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Infixes

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affix inside of the root

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circumfixes

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affix wraps around the root

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Expletive infix goes before _____

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goes before stressed syllable
words with initial stress cannot take infix

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Derivational affix

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not central part of meaning, change meaning
slightly, fulfill grammatical function

Both prefixes and suffixes in english

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Inflectional affix

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" Grammatical function – presence required by syntax
" Creates different form of same word
" Never changes the part of speech
" In English all are suffixes
" Very productive

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Where are derivational and inflectional placed?

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Derivational always before inflectional..remember this for tree diagrams