bound morphemes - 2025 ACF Nationals

Question

In linguistics, a clitic is a unit that behaves syntactically like a word, but cannot stand alone phonologically. For 10 points each:

[10m] Clitics are sometimes classified as this kind of morpheme, which never appears as an independent word. Affixes are a subtype of these morphemes, which are contrasted with free morphemes.

ANSWER: bound morphemes

[10e] “Clitic climbing,” in which a clitic moves from an embedded clause to the main clause, is common in this Latin-descended language family that includes Spanish and French.

ANSWER: Romance languages

[10h] With Arnold Zwicky, this Scottish-born linguist argued that the English negation n’t is an inflectional affix, not a clitic. An essay by this coiner of the term “eggcorn” calls the idea that Inuit peoples have dozens of words for snow a “great… vocabulary hoax.”

ANSWER: Geoffrey Pullum [or Geoffrey Keith Pullum] (Pullum originally titled the essay “The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax.”)

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California	2025-02-01	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	N	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	N	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Overflow	2025-02-01	N	5	20.00	80%	100%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	N	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	N	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	N	10	13.00	80%	40%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	N	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%

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