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Title: Morphology

Description: Morphology

Total Flash Cards: 6

Created: 10/09/2007 00:18:47

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Term
How to build Morphological Trees
Definition

1) Identify morphemes in a word

2) Identify a stem

3) Combine two parts and check whether the resulting word is a possible English word

4) Identify a head that determines the category

5) Combine it with another morpheme 

 

Term
The Right Head Rule
Definition
The head goes on the right, the head determines meaning and function of a word.
Term

How does word structure change meaning? Example, the two meanings of

UNLOCKABLE 

Definition

[unlock]able

un[lockable]

 

whether you start with unlock or lockable first, the meaning changes

Term
How are prefixes different from suffixes in terms of determining word category? How does "un" differ from "ly" in "un-god-ly"
Definition

Prefixes don't change word category

Suffixes do 

Term
What is the difference between endocentric and exocentric compounds?
Definition

Endocentric there is an identifiable head  and the right stem determines both the category and what the compound is about

 

Example: [[fire]manN]  [[green]housen]

 

Exocentric:  Head cannot be found within this compound and its category is determined from the outside

 

Example: red neck, makeup, blackout 

Term
How does the assignment of stress differ in compounds and in syntactic combinations?
Definition

In compounds - stress is on the left

In Syntactic combinations - it depends