Morphology
  • 1. What is the smallest meaningful unit of language?
A) Morpheme
B) Alphabet
C) Syllable
D) Word
  • 2. What is an affix?
A) A morpheme added to a word to modify its meaning
B) A mathematical symbol
C) A type of punctuation mark
D) A type of tree
  • 3. What is the process of creating new words by adding affixes?
A) Inflection
B) Reduplication
C) Derivation
D) Compounding
  • 4. In the word 'unhappiness', what type of affix is 'un'?
A) Circumfix
B) Infix
C) Suffix
D) Prefix
  • 5. Which term describes words that are formed by combining two or more roots?
A) Compound
B) Derivative
C) Complex
D) Simple
  • 6. What is a neologism?
A) A foreign language word
B) An old-fashioned word
C) A grammatically incorrect word
D) A newly coined word or expression
  • 7. What is the study of the history and origin of words?
A) Semantics
B) Etymology
C) Pragmatics
D) Syntax
  • 8. What is a coinage?
A) A slang word
B) A word borrowed from another language
C) An ancient word with unknown origin
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 a new word by removing a supposed affix from an existing word
C) The creation of new words through the blending of syllables
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) Folk etymology
B) Neologism
C) Coinage
D) Loanword
  • 11. What is semantic narrowing?
A) The creation of a new word through blending
B) The expansion of a word's meaning to broader categories
C) The process in which a word's meaning becomes more specific over time
D) The change in a word's meaning through word order
  • 12. What is the study of word structure known as?
A) Phonology
B) Semantics
C) Morphology
D) Syntax
  • 13. Which type of affix comes after the base word?
A) Suffix
B) Circumfix
C) Prefix
D) Infix
  • 14. Which morphological process changes the tense of a verb?
A) Back-formation
B) Compounding
C) Derivation
D) Inflection
  • 15. The process of forming words by doubling a base or part of a base is known as:
A) Compounding
B) Reduplication
C) Derivation
D) Conjugation
  • 16. In English, the plural morpheme is commonly represented by:
A) -ed
B) -s
C) -er
D) -ing
  • 17. What is a word that is derived from another word called?
A) Derivative
B) Inflection
C) Compound
D) Neologism
  • 18. The process of forming words by truncating part of a base word is known as:
A) Derivation
B) Compounding
C) Clipping
D) Conversion
  • 19. What do we call a word that sounds like what it refers to?
A) Homonym
B) Synonym
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Acronym
  • 20. What is the study of how words are pronounced called?
A) Semantics
B) Syntax
C) Morphology
D) Phonology
  • 21. What term describes a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?
A) Synonym
B) Homonym
C) Antonym
D) Polysemy
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