Morphological processes and conceptual categories

When does a conceptual category exist?

• When there are morphemes that do not differ in meaning.

• when there is a recurring relationship between variation in form and variation in meaning.

• When there is a relationship between sounds and meaning.

• I do not know

The difference between derivation and inflection is best characterized in terms of prototypes, and clusters of features that tend to go together. Which category create new stems belong to a different word class: derivational or inflectional?

(a)  

Which of these options are examples of the derivational category?

• good/better

• dog/dogs

• agree/agreement

• cook/cooked

How many morphological processes are mentioned in the text?

• 5

• 3

• 10

• 12

Explain in your own words ONE of the three methods for representing morphological processes and conceptual categories. Give three examples.

What are the types of allomorphs?

• Bound,

  Free

• Loan-translation, borrowing, compounding

• Additive, zero, replacive, suppletive

• Lexical, grammatical, affixes

What is a lexical homonyms?

• are forms that are related to each other but slightly different, depending on the surrounding environment

• different word-forms of one and the same word. Depending on the context.

• are words identical in the sound-forms of some of their grammatical word-forms but different in their part-of-speech meaning and in the lexical and grammatical meaning of their homonymous word-forms.

• are words identical in their part-of-speech and grammatical meaning of all their homonymous word-forms but different in their lexical meaning.

Which of these words is an example of additive allomorph?

• speak

• called

• mice

• let