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
