ENG509 Midterm Quiz from Assessments

ENG509

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Maha Malik Morphology & Syntax

1. The word ‘fish’ takes no morpheme when becomes plural. (True)
2. Phonology is the branch of linguistics that deals with words, their internal structure, and how they are formed. (False)
3. Stem is the base unit to which another morphological piece is attached. (True)
4. The word ‘morphology’ belongs to ------------- language. (Greek)
5. The branch of linguistics that allows creating new and unique words is called ------------. (Morphology)
6. ‘Analysis’ and ‘-------------’ are the two basic approaches to morphological analysis. (synthesis)
7. Item-and-arrangement and item-and-process are the two approaches to morphology. (True)
8. Inflection is the process of forming different grammatical forms of a single lexeme? (True)
9. Derivation is the process of creating one lexeme from another. (True)
10. Noun is the word which can be the subject of a sentence. (True)
11. Which of the following is the content word? (Bargain)
12. The word lexicon is from ------------ lexikós means ‘pertaining to words’. (Greek)
13. When two or more instances of a given morpheme occur with different shapes, we call them allomorphs. (True)
14. Which of the following branches of linguistics deals with the interaction of morphology and prosodic structure? (Prosodic Morphology)
15. __________ deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes. (Phonotactics)
16. _______________ describes the interactions taking place between morphology and phonology. (Morphophonology)
17. The phenomenon whereby a language becomes intolerant of ------------- elements and speakers reanalyze them as having a new role is called linguistic exaptation. (useless)
18. Identify the secret language from the given options. (Pig Latin)
19. The idea that language is a system of signs was proposed by --------------. (Ferdinand de Saussure)
20. Identify the example of clipping from the following options. (Typo)
21. Which of the following is the process of creating a word by removing what appears to be an affix? (Backformation)
22. Clipping is the process of creating a new word by truncation of an existing one. (True)
23. Zero-derivation changes the lexical category of a word without changing its ------------ shape. (phonological)
24. The noun -------------takes an irregular suffix to form its plural. (child)
25. Identify the determiner from the given options. (This)
26. The noun -------------takes a zero suffix to form its plural. (sheep)
27. Performs, performed and perform all are the inflected forms of the lexeme perform. (True)
28. In English, a verb lexeme has at most five distinct forms (True)
29. English adjectives have mostly three forms. (True)
30. Identify the regular suffix to form plural of nouns. (-s)
31. Identify the noun from the following which is formed by changing the vowel of its verb. (Song)
32. Identify the noun from the following which is formed by changing the final consonant of its verb. (Proof)
33. Identify the noun from the following which is formed by changing the vowel of its verb. (seat)
34. ‘Performance’ and ------------- are the two forms of a lexeme ‘Performance’. (Performances)
35. Identify the verb which is formed by replacing the final voiceless consonant of its noun with a voiced one. (Bathe)
36. Identify the noun from the following which is formed by changing the vowel of its verb. (Song)
37. Identify the compound verb type that describes ‘blackboard’. (Adjective-noun (AN))
38. Phrasal words have the internal structure of phrases but function syntactically as words. (True)
39. Noun-verb (NV) is the compound verb type that describes ‘stir-fry’. (False)
40. Playtime is an example of the left-headed compound. (True)
41. Verb-noun (VN) is the compound verb type that describes ‘playtime’. (True)
42. Identify the headless compound from the given options. (Faint-heart)
43. In the word ‘undividable’, the prefix un- conveys the meaning of --------------. (not)
44. In a/an ------------- compound word, none of its units represents the properties that the word exhibits. (exocentric)
45. A-Morphous Morphology claims that words do not have an internal structure. (True)
46. Third kind of paradox takes into account phonological factors. (True)
47. Parasynthesis is the situation where two different affixes - a prefix and a suffix - seem to be added simultaneously to the same base. (True)
48. Identify the category of the word ‘undesirable’ from the given options. (Adjective)
49. Which of the following options conveys the meaning of the prefix re- in the word ‘reassemble’? (Again)
50. Identify the option which is NOT an agent. (Screwdriver)
51. Which of the following is the capacity of a word to have multiple meanings? (Polysemy)
52. Multiplicity is the process of adding a morpheme to a word to create either a different form of that word or a new word with a different meaning? (False)
53. Which of the following options conveys the meaning of re- in the word ‘reorganize’? (Again)
54. What does the term Latin root flect- mean in the word ‘inflection’? (Bend)
55. In which of the following phenomena, a single inflected form corresponds to more than one set of morphosyntactic features? (Syncretism)
56. Which of the following options changes the core lexical meaning of the word to which it applies? (Derivation)
57. Number, gender and case are the most common nominal categories in inflection. (True)
58. The term ‘inflection’ is derived from --------------- language. (Latin)