Building New Signs
What is morphology?
Verbs that already in the language are used to create nouns.
What is Deriving Nouns from Verbs?
When a language takes two words that it already has and putting them together to create a new word.
What is compounding?
From a morphological perspective, these are considered free morphemes.
What is the alphabet?
Changing the handshape of a sign to express a certain number
What is numeral incorporation?
The smallest meaningful unit in a language.
What is a morpheme?
This parameter creates the difference in meaning between noun/verb pairs.
The word that is formed from the compound: LOOK+STRONG
What is resemble or familiar?
Describes the process of fingerspelling because the separate signs do seem to become like one.
What is lexicalization?
The range of numbers most commonly used in numeral incorporation.
What is 1-9?
Bound morphemes that attach to free morphemes (-er, un-, -ing)
What are affixes?
In ASL, words that are signed more than once are considered to be this.
The word that is formed from the compound: FACE+NEW
What is stranger?
What is Second Hand May Be Added?
Morphemes that can occur independently?
What are Free Morphemes?
The process of making new units for the language; deriving new units.
What is derivational morphology?
In ASL, words signed with a single motion are considered to be this.
What are verbs?
The rule that is applied specifically to create new meaningful units (compounds)
What are Morphological Rules?
#DOG, #BUS, #NO are examples of this.
What is Lexicalized Fingerspelling?
Morphemes that must occur with another morpheme?
What are bound morphemes?
The process of adding grammatical information to units that already exist.
What is inflectional morphology?
The process of forming new words by repeating the segmental structure of a unit.
What is reduplication?
These three rules occur with compounding: Movement Epenthesis, Hold Reduction, and Assimilation.
What are phonological rules?
F-O-O-D being spelled across the forehead is an example of this lexcicalization process?
The sign that allows any number to be bound to it.
What is OLD/AGE or CENT?