Chapter seven -A word and its structure

Technically, one word is a ........

• root or a root

• is a meaning-bearing linguistic unit.

• lexical unit consisting of an articulated sound or set of sounds having a fixed meaning and grammatical category.

Answer explanation

Technically a word is a linguistic unit that carries a meaning and consists of one or more forms that are more or less related.

In general, the word consists of...

• nicknames

• root

• a root or a root and one or more nicknames.

Er is it a suffix or prefix?

• Suffix

• Prefix

What is an affix?

To identify the affix, the word must be separated by branches. The word is UNHAPPILY

Can we then conclude that all complex compound nouns follow the left-stressed pattern of simple compound nouns?

• before saying yes, we must make sure that we have examined all the relevant varieties.

• Yes, because nouns, although they are nouns, do not change with an affix.

The usual pattern, with stress on the left, is overridden if the head is a compound.

• True

• False

• I'm not sure

Semantics is understood as the part of linguistics that studies the....

• meaning of linguistic expressions

• structure the words

• smallest unit of language

Mismatch refers to the wrong meaning that a sentence projects despite having a well-done grammatical structure.

• True

• False

In the paradox of the brackets can be seen in more than one analysis that they are:

• Phonological

• Syntactic

• Semantic

• Lexicon