Lexicology and Semantics 2

1. A morpheme is ...

• the basic unit of a language

• the smallest indivisible language unit

• a cliché

• a collocation

2. Word-formation is the process of creating ...

• lexical homonyms

• affixal phonemes

• new words

• root-morphemes

3. The nucleus of the lexical meaning is …

• affix

• suffix

• root

• stem

4. The morpheme that forms parts of speech is …

• stem

• suffix

• prefix

• root

5. The morpheme that modifies the meaning of the word is …

• stem

• base

• prefix

• suffix

6. Derived words are words formed with the help of …

• a root and an affix

• two roots

• two stems

• three stems

7. What is the free morpheme in the word “fearlessly”?

• fear

• less

• ly

• lessly

8. What word-formation process is used to create the word “access” in the sentence “I can’t access her mailbox.”?

• prefixation

• composition

• conversion

• suffixation

9. What part of speech is the word “brotherhood”?

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

10. The root of the word is ...

• the basic unit of a language

• a derived stem

• a derivational affix

• the basic part of a word which affixes are added to