Last name ______________ First ___________________........... points ___ / ___
A. (___ / ___) Make the BEST matches
| ___ 1 | derivation | meaning | |
| ___ 2 | affixes | b | a property of English compounds that means the lexical category of the last morpheme on the right determines the lexical category of the compound |
| ___ 3 | base | c | words that are only one morpheme and cannot be divided into smaller parts (examples: boy, dracula) are ______________ words |
| ___ 4 | Class I derivational affixes | d | types of bound morphemes; includes prefixes, suffixes, and infixes |
| ___ 5 | Class II derivational affixes | e | a compound that is a category (subtype) of the head (for example: the compound teacup is a type of the head cup) |
| ___ 6 | class | f | any form to which an affix is added (the original form can be more than one morpheme) |
| ___ 7 | complex | g | cause phonological change in the base (for example: (1) modern to modernization; or (2) public to publicize: the "c" changes from /k/ to /s/) |
| ___ 8 | compound | h | an affix that goes in front of its base (example: unhappy) |
| ___ 9 | endocentric compound | i | the lexical category a base belongs to is called the" ___________ of base" |
| ___ 10 | exocentric compound | j | the smallest unit of meaning or function in a language |
| ___ 11 | suppletion | k | do NOT cause a phonological change when the affix is added (example: hair to hairless -- phonologically hair stays the same) |
| ___ 12 | free | l | describes words that have two or more morphemes |
| ___ 13 | the head | m | the core of a word: the part of the word that carries most of the word's meaning (for example hopeless) |
| ___ 14 | incorporation | n | nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions (these are the normal categories of roots) |
| ___ 15 |
infix |
o | a morpheme that can be a word by itself (example: train) is called a ____________________ morpheme |
| ___ 16 | internal change | p | inflection by changing a sound in the morpheme (example: run to ran) |
| ___ 17 | lexical categories | q | a special kind of base: a base with an inflectional affix (example: learns) |
| ___ 18 | lexicon | r | the morpheme that determines the lexical category of the compound |
| ___ 19 | morpheme | s | a type of compounding: combining nouns with a verb to make a compound verb (example: house + clean = the verb houseclean: He's housecleaning right now.) |
| ___ 20 | prefix | t | a compound whose meaning does not come from the head (for example: redneck is not a kind of neck) |
| ___ 21 | right-headedness | u | your mental dictionary (includes meanings of words, how to use them, and their pronunciation) |
| ___ 22 | root | v | inflection by completely changing the morpheme (example: go to went) |
| _a_ 23 | semantic content | w | _________ words are made from two or more other words (examples: break dance, greenhouse) |
| ___ 24 | simple | x | one kind of word building/formation: the process of adding affixes to words |
| ___ 25 | stem | y | an affix that goes inside another morpheme (English doesn't do this) |
B. (___ / ___) What are these missing forms?
verb |
noun (singular or non-count) |
adjective |
adverb |
| derive | 1. _________________ | derivational | ---------- |
| inflect | 2. _________________ | inflectional | ---------- |
| ---------- | lexicon | 3. _________________ | ---------- |
| affix | 4. ______________, affixation | ---------- | ---------- |
| compound | 5. _______________ , |
compound, compounded | ---------- |
C. (___ / ___) Complete these sentences with the missing word.
1. The process of changing a word's form to show grammatical information (for example: plural, past tense, comparison, etc.) is called ____________________. This change can be through affixation, internal change, suppletion, reduplication, or tone placement.
2. Variants (different forms) of a morpheme are called ____________________ . (For example: "indefiniteness" in English has two variants: a and an)
3. The process of combining two or more existing words into one word is called _____________________ .
4. A morpheme that must be attached (example: -er) to a base is called a ________________ morpheme.
5. The study of word structure and word formation is called ______________________ .
6. _____________________ is a kind of word-building affixation that (1) changes the word to a different lexical category, and/or (2) changes the meaning of the word.
D. (___ / ___) Which morpheme has prominent stress in the following? Write the more-strongly stressed morpheme.