Lecture 9

What is the smallest meaningful unit in a language that has a sound form and meaning?

• Phoneme
• Morpheme
• Word
• Sentence

What is word formation in English?

• Creating new sentences
• Creating new words from existing elements
• Modifying phonemes
• Altering syntax

What does the term 'morpheme' derive from?

• Latin
• Greek
• French
• German

Why is a morpheme not autonomous?

• It exists independently
• It occurs only as part of a word
• It forms sentences
• It changes syntax

What are the three lower levels of a language?

• Word, sentence, paragraph
• Phoneme, morpheme, word
• Morpheme, word, clause
• Phoneme, word, sentence

What provides for enlarging and enriching the vocabulary besides borrowing?

• Syntax
• Word-building
• Phonetics
• Semantics

What are the two main kinds of word formation types?

• Phonetic and syntactic
• Linear and non-linear
• Morphological and semantic
• Grammatical and lexical

Which is an example of a linear type of word formation?

• Conversion
• Affixal derivation
• Shortening
• Sound gradation

What is composition in word formation?

• Changing word stress
• Combining two or more stems
• Subtracting suffixes
• Altering vowels

Which is a non-linear type of word formation?

• Affixal derivation
• Compounding
• Conversion
• Prefixation