Morphological Patterns and Lexicon Hypotheses Quiz

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What does derivation focus on?

The relationship between lexemes of a word family (correct)

The structured set of word-forms of a lexeme

The environments in which different allomorphs of the same morpheme occur

The relationship between word forms of a lexeme

Which term refers to the environments in which different allomorphs of the same morpheme occur?

Affixation

Paradigm

Conditioning (correct)

Acronym

In which type of language are almost all words formed by concatenation of morphemes?

Derivation

Agglutinative language (correct)

Inflection

Alphabetism

What does inflection focus on?

The relationship between word forms of a lexeme Signup and view all the answers

What does affixation refer to?

The structured set of word-forms of a lexeme Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary characteristic of alphabetism?

An abbreviation consisting of initial letters read with the letters’ alphabet by values Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe an affix or stem that expresses two meanings expected to be separate?

Portmanteau morph Signup and view all the answers

Which term refers to a deverbal noun that represents the agent participant of an action?

Agent noun Signup and view all the answers

What is the hypothesis stating that a speaker's mental dictionary contains both simple and complex words, regardless of predictability?

Strict word-form lexicon Signup and view all the answers

Which term describes a deadjectival adjective indicating a reduced degree of the base?

Attenuative adjective Signup and view all the answers

In the morpheme-based model, what is used to maintain the principle of only having concatenative rules?

Zero affix Signup and view all the answers

What is an inflectional value expressed by if there is nothing in the pronunciation corresponding to it?

Zero Signup and view all the answers

What is a Polysynthetic language known for?

Making very extensive use of morphology Signup and view all the answers

Which type of base modification involves changing the tone pattern of a word?

Stress shift Signup and view all the answers

In morpheme-based models, how are morphological rules thought to combine morphemes?

Similar to syntactic rules combining words Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the copied element in a reduplication?

Morpheme Signup and view all the answers

What is the abstract representation postulated by linguists to simplify rule systems?

Underlying representation Signup and view all the answers

Which type of base modification involves changing an unvoiced sound to its voiced counterpart?

Weakening/lenition Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a word-based rule consisting of multiple correspondences between word-forms in an inflectional paradigm?

Paradigm rule Signup and view all the answers

Which term refers to a primarily function-changing operation signaling that agent and patient are coreferential?

Reflexive Signup and view all the answers

What do we call an event-changing operation signaling that there is no 'cause' and 'become' element in the event structure?

Resultative Signup and view all the answers

Which term describes a type of paradigm mismatch where semantical meaning and formal morphological marker do not match?

Deponency Signup and view all the answers

What feature of verbs indicates the positive or negative status of the event?

Polarity Signup and view all the answers

In the context provided, what does defectiveness refer to?

Paradigm with missing values Signup and view all the answers

What is an Ergative-absolutive language?

A language that uses the same grammatical markers to indicate the argument of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb Signup and view all the answers

What is a Controller in syntax?

The constituent whose properties determine the properties of the agreeing constituent Signup and view all the answers

What does Gender refer to in some languages?

An inherent property of nouns reflected in agreement and grouping into classes Signup and view all the answers

What is an Argument in linguistics?

A semantic role assigned to a noun by the verb Signup and view all the answers

What is Declension when referring to nouns?

Noun inflection in general Signup and view all the answers

What is an Adjunct in linguistic terms?

A participant in an event that is optionally expressed Signup and view all the answers