Morphology and Etymology Flashcards
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Which of the following is an example of a derivational morpheme?
Answer: The suffix -tion turning create into creation
Derivational morphemes change the grammatical category or meaning of a base word, unlike inflectional morphemes that only modify grammatical features.
The Latin root port as in transport, export, and import means:
Answer: To carry
The Latin root port means to carry, linking words like transport meaning carry across, export meaning carry out, and import meaning carry in.
In morphological analysis, a free morpheme is defined as:
Answer: A morpheme that can stand alone as a word
Free morphemes are complete words that can stand alone and carry meaning independently, unlike bound morphemes that must attach to a base.
Teaching students the Greek root graph meaning write and the prefix bio meaning life allows them to decode biography as:
Answer: A written account of someone's life
Breaking biography into bio meaning life plus graph meaning write plus the suffix -y reveals its meaning as a written account of a life.
Which correctly describes an inflectional morpheme?
Answer: It modifies the grammatical form of a word without changing its core meaning or category
Inflectional morphemes adjust grammatical features such as tense, number, possession, and comparison without changing the base word's part of speech or fundamental meaning.
The prefix mal- as in malfunction and malnourished comes from Latin and means:
Answer: Bad or ill
The Latin prefix mal- means bad or ill, contributing a negative sense to words like malfunction and malnourished.