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What is a paradigm in linguistics?

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A paradigm is a set of related words composed of the same stem and all the inflectional suffixes that can go with this stem.

Front

How many immediate constituents does the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' have?

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5 immediate constituents.

Front

What is a free morpheme?

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A free morpheme is one that can be uttered alone with meaning.

Front

What are the immediate constituents (ICs) of 'misinterpretation'?

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'mis-' + 'interpretation'.

Front

What is a morpheme?

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A morpheme is a combination of sounds or letters that can stand alone or be combined with other morphemes to form words.

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What is an inflectional morpheme?

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An inflectional morpheme is a suffix added to a word to express grammatical features such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and case.

Front

What is the difference between bound and free morphemes?

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Free morphemes can stand alone as words, while bound morphemes cannot stand alone and must be attached to other morphemes.

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Give an example of a bound morpheme.

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Examples include prefixes like 'un-' and suffixes like '-ed'.

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What is a complex morpheme?

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A complex morpheme is a morpheme that consists of more than one morpheme, such as 'unhappiness' (un- + happy + -ness).

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What is the role of inflectional morphemes in language?

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Inflectional morphemes modify a word to express different grammatical categories without changing its core meaning.