English: Structure & Use
Quiz 2
Quiz 2
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| Flashcards | 34 |
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| Language | English |
| Category | English |
| Level | University |
| Created / Updated | 22.11.2016 / 22.11.2016 |
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smallest meaningful unit of a language
families of words that differ only in their grammatical form or ending
each word
all words (repeated one's count as one)
free morphemes that have a lexical meaning
have a lexical meaning but cannot stand alone
dental, psychopath, dermatitis
can stand on its own (either free root w/ lexical meaning or function word w/ grammatical meaning)
cannot stand on their own ( affixes or bound roots with a lexical meaning)
forms a new lexeme, often changes word class
never changes word class, grammatical marker, gives info about number, verb tense and other gramnatical functions
lexical meaning, content word: noun, verb, adjective, adverb
function word, grammatical meaning: pronoun, determiner, preposition, conjunction
the extent to which affixes can give rise to new lexemes formulating rules for affixes
prefix & suffix
gramnatical marker, word cannot change
forms new lexeme, word class changes
forms new word out of two or more stems, normally two free lexemes
nouncompound, verbcompound, adjectivecompoud
word formed out of another word ( finger someone, empty the box)
derive backwards (enthusiasm/enthuse, editor/edit)
motel, smog, infomercial
prof, burger, fax
AIDS, UNICEF, USA, UEFA
vowel sound different ( shake shook, mouse mice)
go/went, am/are ( morhological change with unrelated form)
change of sound base to change the word in word class
I'm You're He's
same sound but different meaning roe/row
fifferrnt origin but same form
same meaning
opposite meaning
word has two or more senses
head of the compound is the second element! can you insert a word in between? if not it's a conpound
