Morphological Concepts

The smallest linguistic unit with a meaning or a grammatical function is called _____________.

• Allomorph

• Morpheme

• Affix

• Stem

______________ studies how words formed out of smaller meaningful pieces and other words.

• Allomorphy

• Form

• Lexicon

• Morphology

The creation of grammatical forms of words is called ______________.

• Allomorphy

• Inflection

• Derivation

• Lexicon

The process of creating words out of other words through lexical categories is called _____________.

• Allomorphy

• Parts of Speech

• Inflectional Morphology

• Derivational Morphology

The parts of speech that can be rejected as open lexical categories are ______________.

• Nouns and prepositions

• Verbs and conjunctions

• Pronouns and prepositions

• Verbs and adverbs

The parts of speech that can be rejected as closef lexical categories are ______________.

• Nouns and prepositions

• Verbs and conjunctions

• Pronouns and prepositions

• Verbs and adverbs

Moonwalk is an example of the morphological process called _______________.

• Compounding

• Affixation

• Reduplication

• Suppletion

Shake→ shook→ shaken are examples of a morphological process called ________________.

• Suppletion

• Alternation

• Affixation

• Reduplication

Bye-bye! is an example of a morphological process called ___________________.

• Alternation

• Affixation

• Reduplication

• Compoounding

Bad→Worse is an example of a morphological process called ___________.

• Alternation

• Suppletion

• Affixation

• Reduplication