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Morphology quiz
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1[blank_start]Morphology[blank_end] is he study of words internal structures
- AMorphology
2A word is the smallest unit of language carrying meaning or function
- ATrue
- BFalse
3[blank_start]Free morpheme[blank_end] can be a word by itself, ie. Hunt, couple, act
- AFree morpheme
4Allomorphs must be attached to another element
- ATrue
- BFalse
5Roots and affixes involve..
- Aprefixes
- Bsuffixes
- Cinfixes
6[blank_start]Derivational[blank_end] affixes change the meaning or lexical category
- ADerivational
7Class 1 derivation affixes:
- Aoften trigger changes, pronunciation, stress, placement
- Bcome from Anglo-Saxton/German
- Coccur closer to the root if placed with class 2
- DEX: -ness, -less, -ful
- Etend to be less productive
8Class 2 derivational affixes..
- Aare phonologically neutral
- Boccur further from the root
- Ctend to be less productive
- Dcome from Greek/roman
9[blank_start]Compounding[blank_end] is when two free forms get stuck together.
- ACompounding
10Endocentric compounds are those where the meaning of the word has meaning inside of its head (rightmost component)
- ATrue
- BFalse
11[blank_start]Exocentric[blank_end] compounds are where the meaning of the compound doesn't come from a meaning in its head.
- AExocentric
12Morphological productivity is
- Athe relative freedom with which affixes can combine with bases of the appropriate category.
- Bprocess that substitutes one non-morphemic segment for another to mark
- Csubstitution of something completely different.
13Inflection is intonation
- ATrue
- BFalse
14Which of the following affixes are inflectional?
- A-s
- B-ing
- C-ness
- D-ity
- E-est
15[blank_start]Internal change[blank_end] is the process that substitutes one non-morphemic segment for another to mark grammatical contrast.
- AInternal change
16Suppletion: substitution of something completely different. ie. go vs. went
- ATrue
- BFalse
17[blank_start]Reduplication[blank_end]: repeating part or all of the word/base with which it applies. ie. (in Indonesian) orang=man, orang orang=manly
- AReduplication
18Tone placement doesn't change the meaning of words
- ATrue
- BFalse
19Cliticization: morphemes that behave like words in terms of meaning and function but cannot stand alone as independent forms, bound morphemes loosely attached to host.
(‘m for am, ‘s for is and ‘re for are) ie. I’m, they’re, Mary’s- ATrue
- BFalse
20Check all other minor word formation types
- Aconversion
- Bclipping
- Cback formation
- Dblends
- Eacronyms
- Finitialism
- Gonomatopoeia
- Hcoinage
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- Linguistics Quiz on Morphology quiz, created by Ella Hall on 19/11/2016.
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- Ella Hall
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