Questions for Discussion. 1. What do words consist of?

 

1. What do words consist of?

2. What is a morpheme?

3. What is meant by the term „allomorphs‟ (or „morpheme variants‟)?

4. What types of morphemes can be singled out semantically?

5. What do we call root-morphemes (or radicals)?

6. What do we call non-root morphemes?

7. What is a suffix? What is a prefix?

8. What structural types of morphemes can be singled out? Characterize each type.

9. What types of meaning do root-morphemes possess?

10. What types of meaning do affixational morphemes have?

 

11. In what way does the lexical meaning of root-morphemes differ from the lexical meaning of affixational morphemes?

12. What is the differential meaning of morphemes?

13. What is the distributional meaning of morphemes?

14. What is meant by the part-of-speech meaning of morphemes?

15. What words are called monomorphic?

16. What are polymorphic words? What types of polymorphic words can be singled out?

17. What subtypes do monoradical words fall into?

18. What subtypes can polyradical words be divided into?

19. What are the three types of morphemic segmentability? Characterize each type.

20. What are morphemes making up words of complete segmentability called?

21. Why are morphemes making up words of conditional segmentability called pseudo-morphemes (or quasi-morphemes)?

22. What is one of the component morphemes making up words of defective segmentability called?

23. What is the procedure of morphemic analysis based on?

24. What are the two principles applied in the analysis of words into ICs and UCs?