Morphology

Question 1

What are neologisms

Answer 1

A new word and the use of different forms in that new word

Question 2

What is called the study of the origin and history of a word?

Answer 2

Etymology

Question 3

Definition of borrowing

Answer 3

The taking over of words from other languages

Question 4

Name a special type of borrowing

Answer 4

Loan-translation/ calque

Question 5

Three phrase structure rules

Answer 5

The all and only criterion
The recursion criterion
The ambiguity criterion

Question 6

Two categories of coinage

Answer 6

Eponyms and Acronyms

Question 7

Joining of two (or more)
separate words to create a
single form=?

Answer 7

Compounding

Question 8

Workaholic, smog, etc =?

Answer 8

Blending

Question 9

Most common word-formation process to be found?

Answer 9

Derivation

Question 10

How many affixes in english?

Answer 10

200: 90 prefixes 110 suffixes

Question 11

Three categories of clipping

Answer 11

Regular (ad, bra, etc)
Hypocorism (telly, duckie, etc)
Backformation (television—- televise)

Question 12

Change in the function of the
word (without reduction)=?

Answer 12

Conversion

Question 13

Examples of Alternation=

Answer 13

Mouse/mice man/men

Question 14

Examples of suppletion

Answer 14

Good, better, best

Question 15

Three types of affixes

Answer 15

Suffix
Prefix
Infix

Question 16

True or fakes: infix is frequent in English?

Answer 16

False, but it does exists