Word Structure
The smallest free form found in language.
What is a word?
The Area 2 Kainan names: Iskomai, Sisko, and Iskorambol are all examples of this morphological process commonly seen in Asian languages.
What is blending?
In the song "Kahit Ayaw Mo Na" by This Band, the verbs in the pre-chorus tatakbo, tatalon, sisigaw, iisipin all exhibit this morphological process.
What is partial reduplication?
The slang word "IJBOL" is an example of a/an ________.
What is an acronym?
Complete the grammar relations: subject, ______, oblique
object
The part of the word structure that has no lexical category and is always bound.
What is an affix?
This morphological process tackles the change in order of sounds within a word, like how 'foliage' turns to 'foilage' in English dialects.
What is metathesis?
Taylor Swift’s song titles, “Bad Blood,” “Mastermind,” and “gold rush” are all examples of _________ compounds, whose meanings are not derived from their component parts.
What is exocentric?
Name a morphological process/phenomenon that is applicable to the name of the Filipino street food "kwek-kwek".
What is onomatopoeia/reduplication?
True or false: Valence is equal to the number of arguments.
False. Valence is equal to the number of DIRECT arguments only.
The nasal consonants in the following words are examples of this concept:
"pantulog"
"pambahay"
"pang-alis"
What are allomorphs?
What is the morphological process/phenomenon evident in "water (the plant)"?
What is conversion?
Consider these lyrics from Toni Braxton's song, "Un-Break My Heart":
Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked out of my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart
My heart
The morphological process for the formation of the words "un-break" and "un-cry" is called ________.
What is derivation?
What is the morphological process applied in the coffeeshops SB and CBTL?
What is initialism?
In the following Japanese sentence, what morphological process did the verb undergo to express the "past" form?
Yuuri-ga katsudon-o tabe-ta
Yuuri-NOM katsudon-ACC eat-Pst
'Yuuri ate katsudon.'
Affixation
The number of morphemes in the word "incomprehensibilities".
What is 6?
This process replaces a morpheme with a different morpheme to indicate grammatical contrast, as seen in the past tense forms 'was' and 'were'.
What is suppletion?
In SHINee's song "Ring Ding Dong," the words ring, ding and dong are used to represent the sound of a bell ringing.
The words ring, ding and dong are examples of _________. (wrong spelling wrong!)
What is onomatopoeia?
"Before was was was, was was is."
The phrase 'was was is' is an example of a/an ________ verbless clause.
What is equative?
Affixes are attached to the root of Italian verbs to express grammatical information such as person, tense, and aspect, but the morphemes used for each piece of information are not readily distinguishable. What morphological type of language is Italian?
parlare 'to speak'
parl-o speak-PRES.1sg 'I speak'
parl-erò speak-FUT.1sg 'I will speak'
parl-avo speak-PAST.IMPF.1sg 'I was speaking'
Fusional
As shown in the following example:
Derivation: organization, imagination
Inflection: organized, imagined
Unlike in derivation, in inflections, there is a presence of ________.
What is semantic transparency?
The slang word "Marites," which is now used to describe someone who is tsismosa, came from the name of a character with similar characteristics that was popularized on TikTok in 2020.
New words that are created from names, such as Marites, are called ________?
What are eponyms?
K-pop group RIIZE's name is a portmanteau of the words Rise and Realize. This is an example of the morphological process called _______.
blending
"A clam crams in a clean cream can."
The semantic role of a clean cream can is ________.
What is location/goal?
Name at least four things that are usually included in a lexical entry.
Pronunciation (or Phonological shape)
Meaning
Syntactic Category
Grammatical Info
Irregular forms and patterns