Morphological Typology Quiz

What is morphological typology?

• A classification of languages based on their phonetics

• A system for analyzing syntax

• A way of classifying languages based on their morphological structures

• A method for teaching vocabulary

Which of the following is an analytic language?

• Finnish

• English

• Japanese

• Turkish

What characterizes synthetic languages?

• Words are used as separate units

• Words are formed by combining morphemes

• They rely heavily on word order

• They have no inflectional morphology

Which language is an example of an agglutinative language?

• Russian

• English

• Uzbek

• Turkish

What is a key feature of fusional languages?

• Single affixes express multiple meanings

• Words are formed by stringing morphemes

• They have minimal inflectional morphology

• They have a high morpheme-to-word ratio

Which of the following is a characteristic of polysynthetic languages?

• Simple grammatical structures

• Use of only free morphemes

• High morpheme-to-word ratio

• Minimal use of morphemes

What distinguishes free morphemes from bound morphemes?

• Bound morphemes are always nouns

• Free morphemes can function independently

• Bound morphemes can stand alone

• Free morphemes are always prefixes

How many parts of speech are there in modern Uzbek?

• 10

• 15

• 8

• 12

Which of the following is a notional part of speech?

• Article

• Adverb

• Conjunction

• Preposition

What are structural parts of speech primarily used for?

• Expressing independent meanings

• Connecting words and sentences

• Forming complex words

• Indicating tense and aspect