Morphology

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What does inflectional morphology deal with?
syntactically determined affixation word-formation
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What does derivational morphology deal with?
new lexical items
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What is configurational properties?
determined by the place occupied by a word in a syntactic configuration, that is, its position and function as a constituent of a phrase, or some other syntactic structure
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What is agreement properties?
determined by the characteristics of another word/s in the same construction
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What is inherent properties?
such as the gender of a noun, that must be accessed by agreement rules, such as French or German
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What is phrasal properties?
belong to an entire syntactic phrase but morphologically realised in one of the words
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Does English have little inflection?
yes
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How many genders did English used to have?
3
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How many cases did English used to have?
4
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What is -ed an example of?
productivity
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What is -ist an example of?
semi-productivity
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What is -ent an example of?
semi-productivity
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What is -id an example of?
unproductivity
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What is -s an example of?
productivity
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What is -en an example of?
unproductivity
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What type of language is a language where each morpheme tends to occur as a word in isolation?
analytic
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What type of language is a language where words usually consist of several morphemes, but there is seldom a one-to-one matching of morphemes with morphs?
inflecting
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What language is a language consisting of long wors that tend to have very extensive agglutination and inflection?
incorporating
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What type of language is a language where much of the semantic inflection involves infixing vowels in a root that consists entirely of consonants?
infixing
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Egyptian Arabic is what type of language?
infixing
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Greenlandic Eskimo is what type of language?
incorporating
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Latin is what type of language?
inflecting
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Turkish is what type of language?
agglutinating
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Chinese is what type of language?
analytic
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Is stratum 1 neutral or non-neutral?
non-neutral
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Is stratum 2 neutral or non-neutral?
neutral
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What stratum do primary affixes belong to?
stratum 1
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Which stratum do affixes added on the outside as an outer layer belong to?
stratum 2
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Do affixes belonging to stratum 1 affect the stress of the base?
yes
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Which stratum is the base left unchanged when affixes are added to it?
stratum 2
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Are weak boundaries stratum 1 or stratum 2?
stratum 1
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What does derivational morphology deal with?

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What is configurational properties?

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What is agreement properties?

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What is inherent properties?

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