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Morphology
Ling 130 - Final Exam Review Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -ology means? | study of |
| What is the study of the internal stucture of words? | morphology |
| What is a word? | unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes |
| What info do you have in your mental lexicon about a word? | Info about it's phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties |
| What's a content word? give example | A WORD that carries meaning, in real time regardless of its use in specific context. ocean: it carries the meaning of being an enitity of water |
| Content words are called .....? | open class |
| Why are content words known as open class? | They are open because they are always growing as new words become necessary to convery new concepts |
| What is a function word? | words that serve specific grammatical purpose in a sentence |
| Function words play a ________ Role? | grammatical role |
| Personal pronouns such as “I”, “me”, “she” and “he” are part of ----------- class? Why? | closed class, because they serve a grammatical function of substituting for nouns to express which person and how many |
| What is a morpheme? | the smallest unit of language which carries meaning |
| "er" in the word "singer, painter, lover, worker" carries what meaning? | "one who does" |
| the morpheme "er" in (nicer, prettier, taller) is a __________ morpheme? | inflectional (comparative) |
| In Phone, phonology, phoneme; the morpheme "phon" has ____________, which means "pertaining to sound"? | an identical meaning |
| In the words: unafraid, unfit, un-American; the morpheme "un" in these examples means ____________? | "not" |
| How many morphemes do you find in the word morphology? | two: morph & ology |
| Identify the morphemes in each: student, stupidity, unfair, trial, husbands? | stud/ent; stupid/ity; un/fair; trial; husband/s |
| The term affixes applies to ___________? | Prefixes and suffixes |
| What are infixes? (lang example) | Infix is a morpheme within a morpheme: Tagalog |
| Diff betw derivational and inflectional morphemes? (examples of each) | Derivational morph's change meaning of a word; Inflectional morph's change grammatical role of a word: ex. derv - happy/unhappy; inflec - happy/happiness |
| What is a root? (ex) | smallest possible unit carrying specific meaning in word: ex. truly, true = "tru" is the root |
| What is a stem? (ex) | basic form of a word to which inflectional morphemes can be added. ex: car/cars, true/truly |
| Identify the component morpheme(s) of each word. How many morphemes does each word contain? Use the following key words in your analysis: 1. root, 2. stem, 3.prefix, 4.suffix , 5. derivational morpheme, and 6. inflectional morpheme (when appropriate) | ??? of the words "finally, unlovable, unsystematically" |
| Give two examples fo compound words? | doghouse, sandcastle |
| Is the meaning of a compound word the sum of the meanings of its parts? Discuss : ghostwrite, homeowner, blackboard | the words further specify the object being refered to. Ghostwriter explains who is writing, homeowner explains what is being owned etc. |
| What is an acronym? 2 ex | where the initial of a phrase are joined together to make a word: ex USA and EU european Union |
| What is a blended word? 2 ex | forming a new word using parts of existing words, ex. spanglish :spanish & english; smog: smoke & fog |
| What is an eponym? | refers to a person, real or imaginary, after whom something has been named |
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