Morphology

What is productivity?

• It is the set of words or expressions that are closely related, whatever it may be.

• It is a structured communication system for which there is a context of use and certain formal combinatorial principles

• It is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process, especially in word-formation.

Choose the word that corresponds to the following statement: They are always intentional formations that follow an unproductive pattern.

• Creative neologisms

• Productive processes

• Morphological phenomena

• None of them

Choose True or False

Phonological restrictions on the domain of a word-formation rule are

particularly common with derivational suffixes

• True

• False

Select the correct answer:

The set of bases to which a rule could apply in principle is called.

• Grammaticalization

• Domain

• Inflection

• None of them

Choose True or False

There are quite a few restrictions on productivity that limit the minting of new words.

• False

• True

Choose True or False

Productivity and lexicon refer to the type of restrictions that explain why some words do not exist.

• True

• False

The ...... represents a ..... restriction on ...... (the desire for language should not have ..... words with the same meaning).

(a)  

An analog change occurs:

• when speakers form a new word on the model of another word..

• when refers to the type of restrictions that explain why some words do not exist

Complete the following example:

Base = Potentially blocked word = Blocking word

........ = maliziosita = ........ = “malice”

(a)  

Complete the following example

Base = Potentially blocked word = Blocking word

Armonioso = ................... = armonia = .................