morphology baza

By means of the operation called vowel mutation we can inflect the noun tooth.

T

Compound nouns can be clipped in English.

T

Each sentence contains the same number of lexemes and word-forms.

F

English does not have genuine infixes.

T

Words are continuous sequences of morphemes.

T

We and us are unrelated morphologically.

T

Man-compounds do have feminine equivalents.

T

Inflectional prefixes are rarer than suffixes in English.

T

The form redden is derived from a verb.

F

The word-form can be morphologically compositional.

T

Zero derivation produces verbs from nouns.

T

House (n.) and house (v.) are an example of partial conversion.

T

The relationship between deer (sing.) and deer (pl.) can be explained in terms of zero morpheme.

T

Andy is an example of mixed clipping.

F

Sail boat and scarecrow exemplify the group of endocentric compounds in English.

F

The positive form goed is suppleted by the form went.

F

The morpheme –ter in laughter can be treated as a cranberry morpheme.

F

The words pressure, seizure and exposure represent a no longer productive word-formation process in English.

T

A phonological word is a form defined in terms of phonological criteria.

T

The Past Tense morpheme in English is represented in context by only one allomorph.

F

Spaciousness is a well-formed word in English.

T

Conversion may also involve a functional change within one word-class, as in bread (uncountable) and bread (countable).

T

The English language does not have any morphological means to show the gender of noun.

F

Acronymy is a concatenative word-formation process.

F

Adverbs and adjectives in English may be morphologically identical.

T

Affixes cannot manifest polysemantic features.

F

Allomorphs are realizations of lexemes.

F

English inflection is suffixal in nature.

T

In analytical languages there is no or little inflection.

T

In English compounds bases have to be simple.

F

Derivation is normally predictable semantically (regular semantically).

F

The superlative is the basic form of the English adjective.

F

The word-forms dobry/lepszy are examples of suppletion.

T

Certain etymologically complex lexemes may be perceived as monomorphemic form the contemporary point of view.

T

In dvandva compounds one base contributes more meaning to the whole lexeme.

F

A lexical item constructed from two free bases is called a(n) .

compound

Morphologically speaking, the word closing is The closing of the library is scheduled for next year is a(n) ……….. word.

bimorphemic/complex

A(n) ……….. suffix changes the lexical meaning of a word.

derivational

All affixes may be divided into _ and __ ones.

inflectional and derivational

An empty morpheme is a unit of _ without corresponding meaning.

form

A(n) _ morpheme can occur on its own.

free

The word good-looking is a result if the process called _.

compounding

The word cut is the ___ in the form cuts.

root/stem/base

Suffixes are those affixes which are attached to the end of …….

word/bases

The allomorph /z/ in dogs is …………. conditioned.

phonologically

The suffix –er in sooner, unlike –er in cooker, is a(n) _ morpheme.

inflectional

We form bus from omnibus by means of the process called _.

clipping/fore-clipping

Inflectional morphology deals with how __.

word forms dependent on the grammatical context are formed

Allomorphs, despite having different shapes, carry the same _.

meaning

The formation of *ungood and *unbig is ……………. by the existence of forms bad and small, respectively.

blocked

The suffix -ful differs from the prefix un- in that, among others, the former _ the word category while the latter __.

changes … doesn’t

The process of …… involves taking phonetic fragments of two or more words and then joining the fragmentary parts together.

blending

The results of derivational processes which are no longer productive are called lexical _.

fossils

A simple morphemic word cannot _ any derivational process.

undergo

The word formation process in which we shorten the base to form a new word of the same class is called _.

clipping

A word is realization of a lexeme in a particular phonetic context.

f

A ___ form of a lexeme is its dictionary representation.

citation

The dictionary information about lexemes includes, for example, a note about their …... and …… .

meaning and form

………….. is the occurrence of the different forms of a lexeme in different environments.

(word-form) distribution/contextualisation

_ are not normally listed in a dictionary.

vocalizations/inflectional forms

Some inflections, such as number and person, are conditioned by ………… context.

grammatical

The uninflected form of an adjective is called __.

positive

In an English endocentric compound the head is its ……….. element semantically speaking.

determinative

___ refers to the application of a particular affix to the members of a well-defined group of word.

Regularity

The dictionary mediates between lexemes and their meanings via ___ forms as the former’s conventional representations.

citation

The relationship between liaison and liaise is explained by the existence of the word-formation process called _.

backformation

If kuda (‘horse’) is singular and kudakuda (‘horses’) is plural, the pluralization of the former is realized by _.

reduplication

A(n) ………… is an item occurring in print between spaces.

word

In free syntagmas, unlike in compounds, the _ is normally unstressed.

the first element

In English some adjectives are graded ……, others analytically.

synthetically

The term root can be used in both ……. and ……. .

derivation and inflection

Inflection in English is more semantically _ than derivation.

predictable/regular

Robber as it comes from the verb rob is called a(n) …… noun.

verbal

The allomorph -en in oxen is ____ ______ conditioned.

lexically

People have no intuition concerning the concept of word.

F

We can always assign meanings to derivational morphemes in a systematic way.

F

Some inflectional endings are fusional in nature as they combine different functions in one morphological form.

T

In English a word can only consist of up to four morphemes.

F

A compound word consists by definition of bound roots.

F

No morpho-syntactic word form is dependent on the grammatical context.

F

Amongst English nouns all their inflected forms are regular.

F

Inflection in English operates also within closed classes.

T

Synonyms are forms of the same lexeme.

F

Compound-complex words cannot take inflectional suffixes in English.

F

The suffix -ly is the only adverb forming suffix in English.

F

A syllable is a morphological division of a word in English.

F

Compound words in English are usually stresses on their first element.

T

Spelling is a fool-proof criterion in the identification of compounds.

F

The suffix -er in English always forms nouns referring to people.

F

Allomorphs of one morpheme do not have to be phonologically identical

T

Multiword expressions, such as idioms, can be classified as listemes

T

Inflection is usually regular semantically.

T

Allomorphs can be phonetically, lexically and grammatically conditioned.

T

Lexemes are physical units of meaning.

F

Morphemes always have the same length.

F

Morphemes are randomly occurring elements in words.

F

The word cranberry consists of one morpheme.

F

A specific affix is always applied generally to all the bases and stems of a particular kind.

F

A listeme is a term referring to an entry in a dictionary of a language

T

Compound nouns can be clipped in English

T