Morphology
  • 1. What is the smallest meaningful unit of language?
A) Morpheme
B) Syllable
C) Alphabet
D) Word
  • 2. What is an affix?
A) A mathematical symbol
B) A type of tree
C) A type of punctuation mark
D) A morpheme added to a word to modify its meaning
  • 3. What is the process of creating new words by adding affixes?
A) Compounding
B) Derivation
C) Reduplication
D) Inflection
  • 4. In the word 'unhappiness', what type of affix is 'un'?
A) Prefix
B) Circumfix
C) Suffix
D) Infix
  • 5. Which term describes words that are formed by combining two or more roots?
A) Simple
B) Derivative
C) Complex
D) Compound
  • 6. What is a neologism?
A) A foreign language word
B) A grammatically incorrect word
C) A newly coined word or expression
D) An old-fashioned word
  • 7. What is the study of the history and origin of words?
A) Syntax
B) Semantics
C) Pragmatics
D) Etymology
  • 8. What is a coinage?
A) An ancient word with unknown origin
B) A slang word
C) A word borrowed from another language
D) A newly invented word or phrase
  • 9. What is back-formation in word formation?
A) The modification of a word by shifting stress to another syllable
B) The creation of new words through the blending of syllables
C) The creation of a new word by removing a supposed affix from an existing word
D) The combination of two words to form a new word
  • 10. Which term refers to a word that is borrowed from another language with little or no modification?
A) Coinage
B) Loanword
C) Neologism
D) Folk etymology
  • 11. What is semantic narrowing?
A) The process in which a word's meaning becomes more specific over time
B) The change in a word's meaning through word order
C) The creation of a new word through blending
D) The expansion of a word's meaning to broader categories
  • 12. What is the study of word structure known as?
A) Phonology
B) Semantics
C) Syntax
D) Morphology
  • 13. Which type of affix comes after the base word?
A) Circumfix
B) Infix
C) Prefix
D) Suffix
  • 14. Which morphological process changes the tense of a verb?
A) Compounding
B) Inflection
C) Derivation
D) Back-formation
  • 15. The process of forming words by doubling a base or part of a base is known as:
A) Conjugation
B) Compounding
C) Derivation
D) Reduplication
  • 16. In English, the plural morpheme is commonly represented by:
A) -ing
B) -er
C) -s
D) -ed
  • 17. What is a word that is derived from another word called?
A) Inflection
B) Compound
C) Derivative
D) Neologism
  • 18. The process of forming words by truncating part of a base word is known as:
A) Clipping
B) Compounding
C) Conversion
D) Derivation
  • 19. What do we call a word that sounds like what it refers to?
A) Synonym
B) Onomatopoeia
C) Homonym
D) Acronym
  • 20. What is the study of how words are pronounced called?
A) Syntax
B) Semantics
C) Phonology
D) Morphology
  • 21. What term describes a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?
A) Homonym
B) Polysemy
C) Synonym
D) Antonym
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