Across
- 2. contains a non-root and always “outside”of the nuclear constituent.
- 5. words having only one syllable.
- 8. a particle attached to the end of a word to modify its meaning or change it into a different word class.
- 13. a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or –in the case of sign languages-that equivalent aspects of sign.
- 14. bound grammatical morphemes that are affixed to a word.
- 16. the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition , consist of a subject and predicate, the letter typically a verb phrase, a verb with any objects and other modifiers.
- 19. phonemic changes when two or more morphemes are combined into a single word.
- 23. the smallest meaning part of a language when we break down a word into the smallest meaningful parts
- 25. the process of creating a new word out of an old word, usually by adding a prefix or a suffix.
- 26. the words used to indicate that there is more than one person, animal, place, thing, or idea.
- 28. any part of a word that you can add inflections to, or that you can add prefixes or suffixes that change the meaning or part of speech.
- 29. the final consonant in syllable.
- 32. a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, and/or vocabulary.
- 35. a powerful ending part of word that can change the tense of a verb or change a singular noun to a plural noun.
- 38. the beginning sounds of the syllable.
- 39. a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.
- 40. a group of words that stand together as a single unit, typically as part of clause or a sentence.
- 41. a speech sound that is not a vowel, it also refers to letters of the alphabet that represent those sound: Z, B, T, G, and H.
- 47. the smallest linguistic unit of meaning and cannot be analyzed further.
- 48. a word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase, it is a particular case of a pro-form.
- 49. a unit of sound that creates meaning in language, join consonants and vowels to form words.
Down
- 1. a word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, noun phrase, clause or sentence that typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc.
- 3. a word used to link nouns, pronouns, or phrase to other words within a sentence, that shows the relationship between two other nearby words.
- 4. does not close the form to further word formation (derivational).
- 6. a morpheme (or word element) that cannot stand alone as a word.
- 7. words having only two syllables.
- 9. constitute words themselves, can stand alone on their own.
- 10. closes the construction to further word formation (inflection).
- 11. a branch of linguistics dealing with various kinds of morphophonemic changes.
- 12. adding a morpheme to a root to give a new word, often results in change in syntactic category.
- 15. words derived from initials.
- 17. a study of words that basically deals with word formation, examines the relationship between words, and analyzes their constituent elements.
- 18. an affix attached to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning.
- 20. a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existance, or ideas.
- 21. the separation of a word into syllables, whether spoken or written, in most languages the actually spoken syllables are the basis of it in writting too.
- 22. the powerful ending parts of words that can change a word’s part of speech.
- 24. the prt of a word that cannot be changed, and when added to creates different forms of the word.
- 27. the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning.
- 30. a group of letters that is attached before, after or within to a word stem to form a new word.
- 31. a unit of meaning that varies in sound without changing its meaning.
- 33. the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and mood.
- 34. the form of a word that inflections get added onto.
- 36. the words used to indicate that there is just one person, place, thing, or idea.
- 37. a word that expresses an action or a state of being.
- 41. joining two or more words to form a new word.
- 42. a morphological construction consisting of a root or a combination of roots.
- 43. one of the units of sound that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
- 44. the vocalized form of communication used by humans, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon.
- 45. a speech sound made with the vocal tract open, such as A, I, U, E, O.
- 46. an affix inserted in the middle of the word.