Basic Concepts
It is the study of the structure of words.
Morphology
"Blackboard" is an example of ________ words.
compound
Nouns are words that name:
people, places, things or ideas
It is the study of the origin and history of words.
Etymology
It is the smallest meaningful unit of language
Morpheme
Derivational morphemes create new words by adding _______ or _______.
prefixes / suffixes
_______ are words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns, provide more information about a noun.
Adjectives
_______ is a process where a new word is created by removing part of an existing word
Regressive derivation
It is the unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes
Word
Modify a word to express different grammatical features.
Inflectional morphemes
Verbs are words that express:
Actions, states or occurrences
A ______ word is a word adopted from one language and incorporated into another language without translation.
Loan
Free Morphemes
It is an example of derivational morphemes
"beauty" to "beautiful"
Words that modify verbs, adjectives ore other adverbs.
Adverbs
Is the process of combining two or more words to create a new word
Fusion
This type of morpheme cannot stand alone and most attach to pother morphemes
Bound morphemes
"talk to talked" is an example of _______ morphemes.
inflectional
Prepositions are words that show relationships between nouns and other elements in a sentence, and _______ is an example of this.
Under
______ are new words or phrases that have been coined recently. "Devoraste" it's an example.
Neologisms