Packet B: Bonus 13
Affixes called libfixes are created by the backformation of the “bound” form of these linguistic components, such as the affix “-athon” that is derived from the term “walkathon.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these smallest grammatical units of a language to have meaning, in contrast to phonemes.
ANSWER: morphemes [accept bound morphemes]
[10m] In addition to backformation, libfixes are formed through this process from historical linguistics, in which a word is resegmented, such as the shift from “Hamburg + -er” to “ham + burger.”
ANSWER: rebracketing [accept metanalysis; accept reanalysis]
[10h] By definition, libfixation results in an affix with this property, meaning it can still derive new words. Unlike “-ness,” other nominalizing suffixes like “-tion” lack this property, despite being transparently analyzable, since they are no longer fruitful.
ANSWER: productivity [or productive; accept productive suffix]
<NS, Social Science> | Packet B - Queens A, UCLA B, Edinburgh B, St. Georges A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 13.29 | 88% | 26% | 19% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 10 | 16.00 | 100% | 30% | 30% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 40% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 8.89 | 67% | 22% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 0% | 40% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 8.57 | 71% | 0% | 14% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 50% | 17% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 38% | 50% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |