"The Morphemic Structure of the English Language" Lecture №3

What does the morphemic structure of language study?

• Sound structure of words

• The semantic load of words

• Grammatical relations between words

• Word order in a sentence

What type of morpheme is an independent word and has its own meaning?

• Prefix

• Infix

• Suffix

• Free morpheme

What type of morpheme is added to a base word and changes its meaning or grammatical form?

• Prefix

• Infix

• Suffix

• Free morpheme

What is the name of a morpheme that can exist independently and does not depend on other morphemes?

• Prefix

• Infix

• Suffix

• Free morpheme

What type of morpheme is added to a word at the beginning and changes its meaning?

• Prefix

• Infix

• Suffix

• Free morpheme

What type of morpheme is added to a word at the end and can change its part of speech?

• Prefix

• Infix

• Suffix

• Free morpheme

What is the process of forming words by adding a morpheme to a base word called?

• Addition

• Reduction

• Affixation

• Association

What is the name of a morpheme that changes the form of a word but not its meaning?

• Semantic morpheme

• Grammatical morpheme

• Phonological morpheme

• Lexical morpheme

What are the two main types of morphemes in the morphemic structure of words?

• Semantic and grammatical

• Prefixes and suffixes

• Morphological and syntactic

• Word-forming and word-modifying

What is the name of a morpheme that cannot exist independently and is always associated with other morphemes?

• Prefix

• Suffix

• Infix

• Dependent morpheme