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What is morphology?
What is morphology?
- The study of the internal structure of sentences
- The area of grammar concerned with the structure of words and relationships between words involving morphemes (correct)
- The process of creating new words from existing ones
- The study of phonological/orthographic shapes of words
What is a lexeme?
What is a lexeme?
- A word's internal structure
- The smallest meaningful unit of morphological analysis
- A phonological/orthographic shape of a word
- An abstraction over one or more word types conveying the same lexical meaning (correct)
What does 'word form' refer to?
What does 'word form' refer to?
- A phonological/orthographic shape of a word irrespective of meaning (correct)
- The smallest meaningful unit of morphological analysis
- The process of creating new words from existing ones
- The area of grammar concerned with the structure of sentences
What is an allomorph?
What is an allomorph?
What is a morpheme?
What is a morpheme?
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Morpheme
Morpheme
The smallest meaningful unit of morphological analysis.
Morphology
Morphology
The study of the internal structure of words and how they relate to each other.
Allomorphs
Allomorphs
Morphs that have different sounds but carry the same meaning.
Lexeme
Lexeme
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Word Form
Word Form
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Study Notes
Morphology Basics
- Morphology is the study of the structure and formation of words, including the relationships between words and their parts.
Lexemes and Word Forms
- A lexeme is a unit of language that represents a single word or a group of related words, such as "run" and its inflected forms like "runs" and "running".
- A word form refers to a specific variant of a lexeme, such as "run" (base form), "runs" (third person singular present tense), and "running" (present participle).
Allomorphs
- An allomorph is a variant of a morpheme that occurs in a specific context, such as the /É™/ sound in the plural form of "cat" (cats) vs. the /i/ sound in the plural form of "bat" (bats).
Morphemes
- A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning, such as prefixes, suffixes, and roots, like "un-" (prefix), "-able" (suffix), and "run" (root).
- Morphemes can be either free or bound, with free morphemes being able to stand alone as a word, and bound morphemes requiring combination with other morphemes to form a word.
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Test your understanding of morphology with this quiz. Explore the fundamental concepts and principles related to word forms and structures. Evaluate your knowledge and grasp the essential terminology in the study of language morphology.
