Applied English for Linguistics -- Summer 2009- J. E. Seibert -- Tokyo International University of America

Last name ______________ First ___________________........... points ___ / _23_

Applied English: Morphology Quiz 1

A. Make the BEST matches

_____1. morphology a describes words that consist of two or more morphemes
_____2. morpheme b variants (different forms) of a morpheme (example: the indefinite article in English has two allomorphs: a and an)
_____3. allomorphs c an affix that goes inside another morpheme (English doesn't do this)
_____4. affixes d the study of word structure and word formation
_____5. lexicon e the smallest unit of meaning or function in a language
_____6. suffix f a special kind of base: a base with an inflectional affix (example: learns)
_____7.

infix

g a morpheme that must be attached (example: -er)
_____8. free h your mental dictionary (includes meanings of words, how to use them, and their pronunciation)
_____9. bound morpheme i types of bound morphemes; includes prefixes, suffixes, and infixes
_____10. simple j a morpheme that can be a word by itself (example: train) is called a _____________ morpheme
_____11. compound (adj) k words that are made from two (or more) other words are called ______________ words (examples: break dance, greenhouse)
_____12. complex or complex l an affix that goes at the end of its base (example: happiness)
_____13. root m any form to which an affix is added (can be more than one morpheme)
_____14. base n words that are only one morpheme and cannot be divided into smaller parts (examples: boy, dracula) are called ______________ words
__f__15. stem o the core of a word: the part of the word that carries most of the word's meaning (always one morpheme)

 

B. Complete these sentences with one of these words. Each word can be used just one time.

  1. The process of adding affixes to words is called ________________________________.
  2. The lexical category a base belongs to is called the ________________________________.
  3. ________________________________ derivational affixes cause phonological change in the base [for example:(1) modern to modernization; or (2) public to publicize: the "c" changes from /k/ to /s/].
  4. ________________________________ derivational affixes do not cause a phonological change when the affix is added (example: hair to hairless -- phonologically hair stays the same)
  5. The process of changing a word's form to show grammatical information (for example: plural, past tense, comparison, etc.) is called ________________________________.
  6. A kind of affixation called ________________________________ (1) changes a word to a different lexical category, or (2) changes the meaning of a word.

C. Complete this chart: (hint: look at the underlined suffixes)

verb
noun (singular)
adjective
adverb
derive 1.____________(the process) derivational XXXXXXXXXXX
inflect inflection inflectional XXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX semantic semantically
XXXXXXXXXXX lexicon 2.___________________ XXXXXXXXXXX
affix 3._________(the bound morpheme) , affixation XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX