ENG509 Midterm Quiz Combined

ENG509

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Maha Malik Morphology & Syntax

1. Category of word Undesirable....... (Adjective; Noun; Adverb)
2. which one is not the part of speech....... (Noun; Verb; Adverb; Adjective)
3. A sentences that contain at least one simple clause...... (Compound complex; complex compound; simple)
4. productive plural marks in English (-s; -es; en; all of the given)
5. Items such as .............. are phonologically dependent on adjacent words are called clitics. THE AND for
6. Most people are....... Is controlled by left hemisphere.. (Tongue; motivation; speech; movement)
7. Which if the following is common property of syntax of all languages. (Universality; creativity; generality; all the given)
8. On which of following basis words are assigned to grammatical categories /part of speech.. (Morphological properties; syntactic properties; semantic properties; all the given)
9. A....... Is a base unit to which another morphological piece is attached? (Stem; prefix; suffix; word)
10. which of the following is the functional word (noun; verb; adjective; determiner)
11. in which period during the children native like competence (Childhood; adolescence; adult; critical period)
12. Normally we can spot an adverb by the fact that they have is - LY
13. Set on words one uses in Language production is ACTIVE vocabulary
14. Which one is functional category word DETERMINER
15. An example of SEMANTIC change is that the present day liquor is no longer liquid
16. In syntax, the person undergoes the activity or action is termed as AGENT
17. Multiple meaning words are POLYSEMY
18. The word ‘fish’ takes no morpheme when becomes plural. (True)
19. Phonology is the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed. (False)
20. Stem is the base unit to which another morphological piece is attached. (True)
21. The word ‘morphology’ belongs to ------------- language. (Greek)
22. The branch of linguistics that allows creating new and unique words is called ------------. (Morphology)
23. ‘Analysis’ and ‘-------------’ are the two basic approaches to morphological analysis. (synthesis)
24. Item-and-arrangement and item-and-process are the two approaches to morphology. (True)
25. Inflection is the process of forming different grammatical forms of a single lexeme? (True)
26. Derivation is the process of creating one lexeme from another. (True)
27. Noun is the word which can be the subject of a sentence. (True)
28. Which of the following is the content word? (Bargain)
29. The word lexicon is from ------------ lexikós means ‘pertaining to words’. (Greek)
30. When two or more instances of a given morpheme occur with different shapes, we call them allomorphs. (True)
31. Which of the following branches of linguistics deals with the interaction of morphology and prosodic structure? (Prosodic Morphology)
32. __________ deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes. (Phonotactics)
33. _______________ describes the interactions taking place between morphology and phonology. (Morphophonology)
34. The phenomenon whereby a language becomes intolerant of ------------- elements and speakers reanalyze them as having a new role is called linguistic exaptation. (useless)
35. Identify the secret language from the given options. (Pig Latin)
36. The idea that language is a system of signs was proposed by --------------. (Ferdinand de Saussure)
37. Identify the example of clipping from the following options. (Typo)
38. Which of the following is the process of creating a word by removing what appears to be an affix? (Backformation)
39. Clipping is the process of creating a new word by truncation of an existing one. (True)