morphology练习部分答案

Chapter 3 Lexicon

I.

Choose the best answer. (20%)

1.

Nouns, verbs and adjectives can be

classified as __________.

A. lexical

words

B. grammatical

words

C. function

words

D. form words

2.

Morphemes that represent tense, number,

gender and case are called __________ morpheme.

A.

inflectional

B.

free

C.

bound

D. derivational

3.

There are __________ morphemes in the word

denationalization.

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A.

three

B.

four

C.

five

D. six

4.

In English

–

ise and

–

tion are called

__________.

A.

prefixes

B.

suffixes

C.

infixes

D. stems

5.

The three subtypes of affixes are: prefix,

suffix and __________.

A. derivational affix

B.

inflectional affix

C.

infix

D. back- formation

6.

__________ is a way in which new words may

be formed from already existing words by subtracting an affix

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which is thought to be part of the old word.

A.

affixation

B.

back- formation

C.

insertion

D.

addition

7.

__________.

acronymy

clipping

initialism

blending

8.

by __________.

blending

clipping

back-formation

9.

agreement

The word TB is formed in the way of

A.

B.

C.

D.

The

words like

comsat

and

sitcom

are

formed

A.

B.

C.

D. acronymy

The stem of disagreements is __________.

A.

B.

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agree

C.

disagree

D.

disagreement

10.

All of them are meaningful except for

__________.

A.

lexeme

B.

phoneme

C.

morpheme

D.

allomorph

II.

Decide whether the following statements

are true or false. (10%)

11.

Phonetically, the stress of a compound

always falls on the first element, while the second element

receives secondary stress.

12.

Fore as in foretell is both a prefix and a

bound morpheme.

13.

Base refers to the part of the word that

remains when all inflectional affixes are removed.

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14.

In

most

cases,

prefixes

change

the

meaning

of

the

base

whereas

suffixes

change

the

word-class

of

the

base.

15.

Conversion from noun to verb is the most

productive process of a word.

16.

Reduplicative compound is formed by

repeating the same morpheme of a word.

17.

The

words

whimper,

whisper

and

whistle

are

formed in the way of onomatopoeia.

18.

In most cases, the number of syllables of

a word corresponds to the number of morphemes.

19.

Back-formation is a productive way of

word-formations.

20.

Inflection is a particular way of

word-formations.

III.

Fill in the blanks. (20%)

21.

An __________ is pronounced letter by

letter, while an __________ is pronounced as a word.

22.

Lexicon,

in

most

cases,

is

synonymous

with

__________.

23.

Orthographically,

compounds

are

written

in

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