词汇学第三单元自测题

词汇学第三单元自测题

I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.

1. The minimal meaningful units in a language are known as____.

Dimorphs

2. The ____are “actual spoken, minimal carriers of meaning”.

A. morphs

B. allomorphs

C. morphemes

3. Morphemes are ____units, which are realized in speech by discrete units known as ____.

;allomorphs ;morphs

;lexemes ;morphs

4. Which word not a mono-morphemic word

. B. Desire.

. .

5. Most morphemes which can ____by themselves and ____freely in a sentence are realized by single morphs. Words of this kind are called monomorphic words.

;change ;change

;function ;function

6. A (n) ____refers to a member of a set of morphs, which represent one morpheme.

is not an allomorph of morpheme “would”

A. /wud/

B. /d/

C. /d/

D. /t/

8. Morphemes which cannot occur as separate words are ____.

9. Some morphemes are realized by more than one morph according to their position in a word. Such alternative morphs are known as___.

10. We can classify morphemes into several general categories because of different function: free versus bound, derivational versus ____, and lexical versus grammatical.

11. Free morphemes have ____meanings in themselves and can be

used as ____grammatical units in sentences.

;independent ;free

;dependent ;complete

12. Morphemes which ____occur as separate words are bound.

not

’t

13. Which is not the morpheme of the word recellection

. .

.

14. Free morphemes are all ____, which are capable of being used as ____.

;words ;roots

;word building elements

building elements; words

15. Bound morphemes include two types:____and____.

root;prefix root; suffix

root; affix ;prefix

16. Morphemes which are used to derive new words are known as____.

morphemes

morphemes

morphemes

morphemes

17. Inflectional morphemes indicate syntactic relationships between____and ____as grammatical markers.

;meaning ;function

;root ;prefix

with all members of some large class of morphemes.

morphemes

morphemes

morphemes

morphemes

19. Derivational morphemes indicates ____relations within the word.

20. Derivational morphemes are lexical morphemes which are known as____morphemes.

morphemes

morphemes

morphemes

morphemes

21. Some morphemes are not meaningful in ____but acquire meaning by virtue of their connection in words.