
Lexical and semantic change
Authored by Catherine Heaton
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11th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Descriptivism is...
Not being pedantic
Accepting change
Seeing worth in all varieties of language
Wanting clearer rules
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Lexical change: compounding is..
taking parts of words to make new ones
putting whole words together to make a new one
taking a word from another country
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Lexical change: clipping
when words are made longer
when words are made shorter
when words are blended together
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Semantic change: narrowing
meaning becomes more general
meaning becomes more specific
meaning becomes more positive
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Semantic change: ameiloration is...
words acquires a more negative meaning
words acquires a more positive meaning
words acquires a broader meaning
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Semantic change: euphemism means...
an impolite way of referring to a topic
a polite way of referring to a topic
a metaphor
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
In the words "recollection, idealistic, and ex-prisoner", "re-, -ion, -ist, -ic, ex-, and -er" are _________.
a free root
a bound root
an inflectional affix
a derivational affix
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