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1. Define the concepts of a dictionary word and a text word.

A dictionary word is an abstract entity called a lexeme.

A text word is a concrete entity called a word-form.

2. Define the notions of a grammatical paradigm of a lexeme and

of a word family.

A set of word-forms of one lexeme expressing a grammatical meaning

represents its grammatical paradigm.(,lives,has lived from a lexeme live)
Different lexemes may also be related to each other. A set of related
lexemes represents a word family.

3. Name the types of morphological relationship among words and

explain how they differ from each other.

1. derivational relationship which exists among lexemes of a

word family. E.g.: beauty, beautiful, beautifully, beautify, etc.
2. inflectional relationship which exists among word-forms
within the paradigm of a lexeme.(, the word-forms give, gives,
gave, is giving, has given, has been giving, etc. are
interconnected through inflectional relationship.)

4. What does morphology study? When was the term

“morphology” mean?

Morphology studies structure of words and the rules by which words are
formed.
The term morphology was invented in the second part of the 19th
century. It originates from Greek and means “the science of word
forms”