Exercises of Linguistics
Chapter 3
Multiple choices (3*15=45’)
1. Which of the following words is not a free morpheme?
A. able                 B. pet              C. change                 D. dusty
2. The term vaseline was originally created as a trade name for a product, but has become an ordinary English word. What is the technical term used to describe this process?  _________.
A. back formation                            B. conversion 
C. borrowing                                D. neologism
3. In the following examples, which does not fall into the category of allomorphs of English plural form?  ________.
A. S’s                                      B. classes  generated
C. spoonfuls                                 D. suggests
4. Nouns, verbs and adjectives can be classified into _________ words.
A. lexical                                        B. grammatical
C. function                                    D. form
5. There are ______ morphemes in the word internationalization.
A. three                  B. four                  C. five                  D. six
6. In English, -ally and –er are called ______.
A. prefixes                B. infixes                    C. affixes                  D. suffixes
7. The word UNESCO is called a(n) ______.
A. clipped word            B. acronym                C. initial                D. blended word
8. The following words are all created by abbreviation EXCEPT______.
A. prof                 B. bus                   C. flu                  D. edit
9. Which of the following statement is NOT true about inflectional affixes?  (    )
A. They only add a minute or delicate grammatical meaning to the stem.
B. They do not change the word class of the word that they attach to.
C. They are conditioned by non-semantic linguistic factors outside the word they attach to.           
D. They are only suffixes, which are always word final.
10. The word ______ is not a compound.
A. sunflower                B. miniskirt                C. morning glory            D. moonwalk
11. A morpheme that must occur with at least one other morpheme to form a word i
s called a(n)______.
A. free morpheme            B. bound morpheme        C. inflectional morpheme  D. stem
12. The word like sitcom and comsat are formed by______.
A. blending                B. clipping                C. backformation          D. acronymy
13. Which of the following is not a pre-determiner?  (    )
A. three times                B. all                    C. half                  D. that
14. In the word carelessness, careless is ______.
A. a suffix                B. a root                    C. a prefix              D. a stem
15. The different forms of a morpheme are called ______.
A. morphs                B. free forms                C. roots                  D. allomorphs   
List all the functional words you can find in the following paragraph. All the forms of be are identified as function words too. (15’)
16. In Britain the day after Christmas is called Boxing Day. This is a great day for sports, and many go out to watch football matches, etc. But most people stay at home and have a lazy day.
Functional words:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
True or false (T for true and F for false 1*10=10’)
17. Actually the distinction between closed class words and open class words is clear-cut. (    )
18. Not all monomorphemic words are free morphemes. (    )
19. –’s is an inflectional affix indicating plurality of nouns. (    )
20. Berry in words strawberry, blueberry is a free morpheme. (    )
21. As sentences consist of words and are often analyzed into words, a word can be said the smallest unit of language. (    )
22. Bound morphemes must be attached to free morphemes to form words. (    )
23. The allomorphs of a certain morpheme should be in complementary distribution. (    )
24. Inflection is a particular way of word-formation. (    )
25. Phonetically, the stress of a compound always falls on the second element, while the second element receives a first stress. (    )
26. In most cases, prefixes change the meaning of the base whereas suffixes change the word-class of the base. (    )
Brief definitions (3*5=15’)
27. morpheme
28. allomorphs
29. compounding
Match-making (1*10=10’)
30 haircut        31 Kodak            32 smog            33 to skin            34 FBI 
35 edit            36 worker        37 kung-fu        38 flu            39 NASA
A blending    B initialism      C compounding    D neologism      E derivation   
F clipping      G conversion    H acronymy      I back formation  J borrowing   

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