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