Morphology Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. The irreducible core of a word, with absolutely nothing else attached to it.
  2. 7. Clipping is removing multiple parts from multiple words as in sitcom from situation comedy.
  3. 9. A unique morph because the meanings associated with the known morphs in the construction from the meaning of the construction as a whole.
  4. 11. Word coined from the initial letters of the words in a name title or phrase.
  5. 14. A morpheme which only occurs when attached to some other morpheme or morphemes such as a root or stem or base.
  6. 19. The word formation process in which a word is reduced or shortened without changing the meaning of the word.
  7. 20. The usage of an existing word in a new lexical category.
  8. 23. The combination of lexical categories consists of nouns, adjectives, verbs, or prepositions.
  9. 25. Morphemes that can stand by themselves as single word.
  10. 26. Morphemes that are used to make new words or to make words of a different grammatical category from the stem.
  11. 27. Morph is used to account for the difference in function between homophonous forms.
  12. 28. A bound morpheme that attaches to the beginning of the stem of a word to form either a new word or a new form of the same word.
  13. 34. A branch of morphology, deals with the variation in the forms of morphemes because of phonetic factor.
  14. 37. Can be combined with other lexical categories to create larger compounds.
  15. 38. A letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or to ensure it fits grammatically into a sentence.
  16. 39. Morphemes that consist largely of the functional words in the language such as conjunctions, preposition, articles and pronouns.
  17. 41. A term where the linking element in the compound is an affix which only comes between two other forms.
  18. 43. Morphemes that set of ordinary nouns, adjectives and verbs that we think of as the words that carries the `content` of the message as we convey.
  19. 45. Adjective-verb compound.
  20. 46. Verb-preposition compound.
  21. 47. Clipping is retaining only the middle of a word as in flu from influenza.
Down
  1. 1. An unstressed word typically a function word that is incapable of standing on its own and attaches in pronunciation to a stressed word with which it forms a single accentual unit.
  2. 2. Clipping is removing the beginning of a word as in gator from alligator.
  3. 4. How much spelling rules ini forming derivational words.
  4. 5. The word formation process in which parts of two or more words combine to create a new word whose meaning is often a combination of the original words.
  5. 6. Morphemes that must be attached to another morpheme to receive meaning.
  6. 8. Clipping is removing the end of a word as in gas from gasoline.
  7. 10. Some N-N compounds.
  8. 12. Morphological process where a root morpheme is replacing by phonologically unrelated form.
  9. 13. Adjective-noun ccompound.
  10. 14. The various morphs which represent one morpheme.
  11. 15. An affix inserted into the root itself.
  12. 16. A syllable with a short vowel, spelled with a single vowel letter ending in one or more consonants.
  13. 17. A word formation process that repeats all or part of a word to convey some form of meaning.
  14. 18. Smallest independent units of language.
  15. 21. A basic unit of speech studied on both the phonetic and phonological levels of analysis.
  16. 22. A syllable that ends with a long vowel sound, spelled with a single vowel letter.
  17. 24. Part of word that is in existence before any inflectional affixes.
  18. 29. Any unit whatsoever to which affixes of any kind, inflectional affixes and derivational affixes, can be added.
  19. 30. In some languages, morphemes that are attached to another morpheme both initially and finally.
  20. 31. Clitic that precedes the word to which it’s phonologically joined.
  21. 32. Adjectives are identical to the dictionary form of the adjective.
  22. 33. The study of the internal structure of words and forms a core part of linguitic.
  23. 35. A word segment that represents one morpheme in sound or writing.
  24. 36. The smallest units of meaning in a language.
  25. 40. Structure above is compounds formed from compound.
  26. 41. Change that a process that substitutes one non morphemic segment for another.
  27. 42. Syllables have no consonant clusters.
  28. 44. The morpheme which determines the category of the entire word.