MORPHOLOGY PUZZLE

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  1. 7. A grammatical category which indicates a single occurrence of something.
  2. 8. The smallest unit of a word, which has a meaning, lexical or grammatical.
  3. 11. The morpheme that never occurs as a word on its own.
  4. 13. An affix that appears inside the root.
  5. 15. A grammatical word — or affix — used to specify a noun as definite or indefinite.
  6. 16. Collections of sounds (phones), and correlate with a language's speaking rhythm.
  7. 20. One of the two major lexical categories the other is that of nouns which is used to express a state or an action.
  8. 21. Any element which is postulated by the linguist but which has no realisation in language.
  9. 22. Indicate grammatical roles don’t change basic meaning of the word.
  10. 24. An affix that appears after the root.
  11. 25. When a root has one or more inflected morphemes which are phonetically unrelated to it.
  12. 26. Is the part of linguistics which studies words.
  13. 27. Unit of meaning. Free morpheme.
  14. 31. General study concerns the duality aspects between sounds and words forms.
  15. 33. A form class often marked in English by the ability to take the comparative and the superlative suffixes.
  16. 34. The smallest unit of language sounds which can differ the meaning.
  17. 35. Proper noun becomes a common noun.
  18. 37. A term which refers to the inflections of nouns, pronouns, adjectives.
  19. 39. On, in, out, up, from, about.
  20. 42. When added to a word, make or derive a new word with a new meaning, something changed.
  21. 45. One of the major parts of speech which refers to objects in the non-linguistic world or to notions which are regarded as forming entities parallel to real-world objects.
  22. 46. A form which can be regarded as an exception to a given pattern or rule.
  23. 47. The morpheme that is added to a root to modify the meaning.
  24. 49. Morphemes with same form but different meanings.
Down
  1. 1. Qualify verb, fast, slow, loud.
  2. 2. A word that contains more than one root.
  3. 3. The study of language.
  4. 4. A category in the grammar of all languages which refers to more than one object. All languages have a particular means for expressing this category, frequently by using a characteristic inflection.
  5. 5. They proceed nouns in English (a, the, some).
  6. 6. The tendency for words in a language to have many morphemes.
  7. 9. A combining of a root with an affix.
  8. 10. Affixes don't change form when combined.
  9. 12. A morpheme that can stand alone as a word.
  10. 14. Roughly the non-phonetic written details of a language.
  11. 17. Mental dictionary. It list phonemes in its phonemic form.
  12. 18. One of linguistics fields which discuss about word forming.
  13. 19. The alternate forms of a morpheme with the same meaning.
  14. 23. A sound is changed and it produces a morphological change (tense, number, category, etc).
  15. 28. A process which a word or part of a word is repeated.
  16. 29. A relational specification which is found with adjectives and adverbs.
  17. 30. Words that are formed from non-morphemic part of two already existing words.
  18. 32. A grammatical distinction which applies to the speaker, addressee or person talked about in verbal systems.
  19. 36. A morpheme that conveys the main meaning of the word.
  20. 38. An inflection which indicates the relationship of a noun to other elements in a sentence.
  21. 40. An affix which wraps around the root.
  22. 41. Assigning the base to a different word-class without changing its form.
  23. 43. A part of a word to which prefixes and/or suffixes can be added.
  24. 44. Any item of language which cannot be broken down any further without a loss of meaning.
  25. 48. An affix that appears before the root.