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