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Agglutinative |
Clear where one morpheme ends and another begins |
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Fusional |
Boundary between morphemes is hard to determine |
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Blend |
Motor and hotel = motel |
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Borrowing |
Ex. Croissant |
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Calque |
Word-for-word transition (ex. market of fleas) |
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Clipping |
Doctor — doc |
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Open class |
Categories where novel entries are easily added (selfie, hangry, etc) |
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Closed class |
Prepositions, determiners, conjunctions |
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Stem |
Anything morphemes can attach to (cat — cats) |
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Compounds |
Words with more than one root (bittersweet, loudmouth, etc) |
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Head |
Always to the right of the compound |
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Suffix |
-ness, -ous, -ing, etc |
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Prefix |
un-, re-, anti-, etc |
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Infixation |
Putting a morpheme within a root |
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Infix |
Fan*******tastic |
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Circumflix |
Certain past-tense morphemes are circumfixes |
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Affixes |
Prefix, suffix, infix, and circumfix |
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Reduplication |
No-no, bye-bye, etc |
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Alternation |
Change the pronunciation of the morpheme itself (man—men, goose—geese) |
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Suppletion |
Where a root has more than one inflected form, utterly unrelated to it (is, was, be) |