Morphology

Question 1

MULTIPLE CHOICE.

A lexicon is…

A) …an inventory of content words;
B) …a linguistic synonym for ‘encyclopaedia’;
C) …a language’s word inventory;
D) …an inventory of function words.

Answer 1

A lexicon is…

C) …a language’s word inventory

Question 2

What is a derivational and an inflectional affix?

Answer 2

DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES: Derivational morphemes have clear semantic content. It can modify the grammatical class of the original word.
INFLECTIONAL AFFIXES: Contribute grammatical information such as plurality. They never change syntactic category of the words or morphemes to which they are attached.

Question 3

True or false: A morpheme is the largest unit of linguistic meaning

Answer 3

FALSE

Question 4

Which of the following is not a type of morpheme?

a. Bound
b. Compound
c. Free
d. Derivational

Answer 4

B. Compound

Question 5

TRUE OR FALSE
The following is a derivational morpheme:
She ate some hotdogS.

Answer 5

False.
It is an inflectional morpheme, since it does not the class of the word.

Question 6

TRUE OR FALSE

A Root morpheme cannot be separated into smaller parts?

Answer 6

True.

A root is a lexical content morpheme that cannot be analyse into smaller parts.

Question 7

True or false: The affixes are prefixes, suffixes and infixes.

Answer 7

FALSE

Question 8

True or false. A morpheme is the minimal units of linguistic meaning or grammatical functions.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

How many morphemes are in “ungentlemanliness”?

Answer 9

5 morphemes

Un+gentle+man+li+ness

Question 10

What is a coinage?

Answer 10

It’s the invention of a word.

Question 11

What is a root? A root is…:

a) the part of a word that cannot be changed, and when added to creates different forms of the word
b) the form of a word that inflections get added onto.
c) any part of a word that you can add inflections to, or that you can add prefixes/suffixes that change the meaning/part of speech

Answer 11

A) the part of a word that cannot be changed, and when added to creates different forms of the word

Question 12

What is the effect of a derivational morpheme on a word?

a) Change the meaning and/or part of speech
b) Change the syntax
c) Add an extra grammatical information

Answer 12

A) Change the meaning and/or part of speech

Question 13

Divide those following words into morphemes.

1) Unpickupable
2) Unlockable

Answer 13

1) un + pick+ up + able

2) Un + lock + able

Question 14

Identify all affixes in the following words and state which are inflectional and which are derivational.

1) Waits
2) Superhuman

Answer 14

1) “s” type: suffix inflectional

2) Prefix: “super” derivational.