Across
- 2. The smallest unit of linguistic meaning or function.
- 5. The study of the internal structure of words.
- 7. Affixes that may possibly, but not necessarily, form a different word or change the word class.
- 9. When a word, phrase, or sentence has multiple meanings.
- 10. The different categories or parts of speech to which words belong (e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives).
- 12. Morphemes that never constitute words by themselves, but must always attach to other morphemes (e.g. prefixes, suffixes).
- 14. Single morphemes that constitute words on their own.
Down
- 1. Words that refer to aspects of human existence in the world (e.g. book, girl, class).
- 3. Words that do not have clear lexical meaning, but have a purely grammatical function (e.g. articles, prepositions).
- 4. Natural groupings of a sentence, displayed as syntactic units in a phrase structure tree.
- 6. Single morpheme that represents the core of the word - the basic meaning that remains when all affixes are stripped from the word.
- 8. Bound grammatical morphemes that are attached to a word according to rules of syntax. They leave a word in the same word class, but add extra grammatical info.
- 11. A sentence with the same meaning (same truth conditions) as another.
- 13. Formed when a root is combined with an affix.