Morphology Vocabulary

What is morphology?

• Study the rules governing the relationship between word and social aspects

• The study of the rules governing sentence formation

• The study of the rules governing the sounds that form words

• The study of the rules governing word formation

What is morpheme?

• The smallest unit of a particular language

• The smallest meaningful unit of word

• The minimal item of a linguistic unit

• The minimal pairof a chosen phrase

Is this statement true?

Free morphemes can stand alone, but bound morphemeshave to be attached to a base morpheme

• True

• False

Which of the following word contains only 1 morpheme?

• Protest

• Against

• Receive

• Submit

Is this statement true?

Free morphemes belong in the open class and all bound morphemes belong in the closed class

• True

• False

Is this statement true?

Free morphemes are dependent and must be attached to another morpheme where as bound morphemes are independent

• True

• False

Which of the following word contains only 2 morphemes?

• Uncommon

• Happiest

• Affixes

• Disqualified

These are not core discussion of morphology, except...

• Phrase

• Meaning

• Word

• Clause

which is not an example of "allomorph"?

• Some derivational morphemes in English (ment, ly, -able)

• The plural morpheme in English (-s, -es, en)

• The negative morphemes in English (un-, im-, il-, in-)

• All of the answers

Which best describe the english language?

• English has complex morphology and less rigid syntax

• English has less complex morphology but more rigid syntax.

• Engkish has complex morphology and rigid syntax