Morphology and Syntax

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Across
  1. 6. Clauses which do not tell a complete message
  2. 7. The case used for the noun "sister" in this sentence "My sister made brownies"
  3. 9. The smallest unit of a language that has meaning
  4. 13. Conjunctions that are obligated to occur in pairs
  5. 14. The percentage of nouns in a child's lexicon.
  6. 18. When the function of a sentence is to request information
  7. 22. The grammatical class that link together words and ideas.
  8. 23. Known as the muscle of the utterance. Signifies action or state of being
  9. 25. ____ are easier for children to learn compared to pronouns.
Down
  1. 1. A verb that acts on a noun or pronoun.
  2. 2. The function of pronouns is to increase the ____ of communication.
  3. 3. Content words for people, places, things, or abstractions
  4. 4. When the function of a sentence is to make a request
  5. 5. Modify verbs and other modifiers
  6. 6. Pronouns which point to an object or a person
  7. 8. Derivational form of the word jump
  8. 10. Nouns that cannot be experienced with any of the physical senses of touch, taste, smell, or sound.
  9. 11. Modify nouns and pronouns
  10. 12. Is active or passive voice used in the sentence "I gave my friend a hug."
  11. 15. The number of phrases in the sentence "My roommate will have gone to the store six times this semester."
  12. 16. The study of word formation
  13. 17. Earliest pronouns are _____.
  14. 19. Inflectional form of the word jump
  15. 20. The study of the rules we use to assemble words into phrases, clauses, and sentences
  16. 21. The number of morphemes in the word "predictions"
  17. 24. The most frequently used type of conjunction.