Lexicology Quiz: Morphology. Word formation.

Conversion is ...

• the formation of a new word through the change in its paradigm

• cases of phonetic identity of words

• the formation of nouns from verbs

Backformation is a way of word-building when a new word is formed by ...

• dropping the final morpheme

• dropping the initial sounds

• joining two or more stems

There are the following types of shortening ...

• clippings, lexicalization, ellipsis, sustantivization

• blendings, ellipsis, acronyms, semantic extension

• ellipsis, acronyms, blendings, clippings

A semi-free (OR semi-bound) morpheme is ...

• one that coincide with the stem or a word-form

• one which occurs only as a constituent part of a word

• one which can function in a morphemic sequence both as an affix and as a free morpheme

Compound-affixed words consist of ...

• one root morpheme and an inflexion

• two or more root-morphemes and an inflexion

• two or more root-morphemes, one or more affixes and an inflexion

Sound-interchange is the way of word-building when a new word is formed through ...

• a change of its grammatical forms

• a change of some sounds

• the imitation of different sounds

... is the most effective way of enriching the vocabulary.

• Word-formation

• Word-creation

• Affixation

... are the most widely used means of word-formation in English.

• Sound-interchange, prefixation, conversion

• Word-composition, affixation, conversion

• Conversion, suffixation, back-formation

Word-formation ...

• deals with segmentation of words into morphemes

• is an autonomous language mechanism which is used to make new words

The morphemes which may occur alone and coincide with word-forms or immutable words are ...

• bound morphemes

• free morphemes