Parts of Words
This is the minimal unit of meaning in language.
What is a morpheme?
Criteria: Has a morphological contrast between singular and plural; Most are preceded by noun markers.
What is a noun?
These are words that have meaning, compare to function words.
What are content words?
Characterizes English from 1500 to the present.
What is Modern English?
{dis-}, as in "dissolve"
What is "away, apart"?
This type of morpheme serves to intensify the base.
What is an intensifying morpheme?
Criteria: Can be intensified by the concept of "more" and "most;" these words can come between nouns and their markers, and can logically follow the word "seem."
What is an adjective?
What is the origin of a word and the study of its development?
What is etymology?
What is Anglo-Saxon?
{re-}, as in "repel"
What is "back, again"?
This is a type of morpheme that has meaning assigned to it.
What is a full morpheme?
Criteria: Affected by time; usually found after sentence subjects
What are verbs?
These are words that serve to cement content words together. Classes of words include auxiliaries, demonstratives, and prepositions.
What are function words?
Characterizes English from 1100 -- 1500 CE. The Canterbury Tales are written in this.
{spect}, as in "respect"
What is "to look at, see"?
These are morpheme that have no meaning.
What is an empty morpheme?
Criteria: Can be formed by adding the suffix -ly; answers questions like "how," "when," and "where."
What are adverbs?
A morpheme to which a prefix or suffix is added.
What is a base?
This is a term that characterizes words that come to us from other languages, similar to borrowings.
What is derivative?
{quire}, as in "inquire"
What is "ask, seek"?
A unit of meaning that varies in sound without changing its meaning.
What is an allomorph?
Name one of the types of classes of words.
What are morphological or syntactical?
These are verbs that do not take an object in a sentence.
What are intransitive verbs?
Reconstructed common ancestor of English, as well as German, French, Russian, Greek, Persian, Hindi, etc.
What is Proto-Indo-European?
{-ed}, as in "invoked"
What is past tense?