CLA 30 Unite One

What are the two facts about morphemes?

1. They have allomorphs 2.They sometimes have different meanings

What language do function words come from?

Anglo-Saxon or Old English

What was the form of language from about A.D. 400 to A.D. 1100? (earliest form for which we have written records)

Anglo-Saxon or Old English

On which model is an English sentence put together?

Anglo-Saxon sentence model

Where are the majority of words in English borrowed from?

Greek and Latin

Where are content words in English usually derived from?

Greek or Latin

What form of language was used from A.D. 1100 to A.D. 1500?

Middle English

Are all content words derived from Latin and Greek?

No, some are derived from Anglo-Saxon

Modern English is descended from a language spoken by who?

The Angles and the Saxons

What does it mean when a morpheme is full?

a meaning can be assigned to it

What is the meaning of {or}?

a person (or thing) who acts or does something

What does {feder} mean?

a union of states

What does {ion} mean?

act of

What does {contra} mean?

against

What do you call variant forms of morphemes that have the same meaning?

allomorphs

What does the morpheme {quire} mean?

ask or seek

What is the meaning of {dis}?

away or apart

What does {retro} mean?

back

What is the meaning of {re}?

back or again

What do you call a morpheme to which a prefix is added?

base

What does {pre} mean?

before

What does derived mean?

borrowed (from)

What does analyze mean?

break down

What do the morphemes {vene} and {vent} mean?

come

What does {al} mean?

connected with, pertaining to

Is "interest" a content or function word?

content word

Is "money" a content or function word?

content word

Is "overlooking" a content or function word?

content word

Is "certificate" a content or function word?

content words

What are variant forms?

different forms with the same meaning

What does the word impel mean?

drive to {im}= in or into {pel}= push or drive

What is true about the meaning of content words?

easy to provide compared to function words

What are three words borrowed from Latin and Greek with no change? (from text in book)

emphasis, interest, & per annum

What does {pro} mean?

forward or in favor of

Is "and" a content or function word?

function word

Is "by" a content or function word?

function word

Is "with" a content or function word?

function word

What does the base {cess} mean?

go or come

What does cumulate mean?

heap (or heap up)

What does the morpheme {im} mean?

into or in

What does {intro} mean?

into or inward

What do the morphemes {spic} and {spect} mean?

look at or see

What do the morphemes {solve} and {solut} mean?

loosen

What does the word dissolve mean?

loosen away

What does {creat} mean?

make or build

What are morphemes?

minimum units of meaning

What does etymology mean?

origin

What is the meaning of {e}?

out or from

What does the structure of a sentence depend on?

partly on function words, partly on word order

Who were the Angles and the Saxons?

people from Northern Europe who invaded England in the 5th and 6th centuries A.D.

What do you call a morpheme that occurs at the front of a word?

prefix

What does the morpheme {pel} mean?

push or drive

What does impel mean?

push someone or something into something else

What are function words?

short words which serve as cement to hold the content words together often difficult to provide a meaning for these words

What does an intensifying morpheme do?

strengthen the meaning of the base intensify the base

What do you call a morpheme that comes at the end of a word?

suffix

What does the word assume mean?

take to oneself {as}=to {sume}=take

What does it mean when someone in-vents something?

that person comes into or upon that idea

What does it mean when someone in-quires?

the person looks into something

What is word order?

the structural signal that distinguishes the meaning between two phrases with the same words

What do the braces around {dis} and {solve} signal?

these forms are morphemes

How is the word "structure" used in the book?

to describe the way a language is put together

What is the meaning of {as}?

to or toward

What do the morphemes {con} and {com} mean?

together

How many classes may words be divided into? What are the names of the classes?

two classes: content words and function words

What does the morpheme {sume} mean?

use up or take

What is the variant form of {as}?

{ad}

What is the morpheme {ac} an allomorph of? What does it mean?

{ad} to or towards

What is the variant form of {e}?

{ex}

What is the variant form of {im}?

{in}

What is the variant form of {pel}?

{pulse}

What does emphasis mean?

"special attention" "stress"

What does it mean when a morpheme is empty?

-it has no clear meaning -it is difficult to assign a meaning in respect to the word it is part of