📘 MAELS Reviewer – Set D

Which feature is typical of a bound morpheme?

• Stands alone as a word

• Appears only with affixation

• Can function as a verb

• Expresses syntactic relations

What linguistic term describes word formation like “brunch”?

• Back-formation

• Blending

• Clipping

• Coinage

In sociolinguistics, code-switching is:

• The mixing of formal and informal register

• The switch between dialects within one language

• Alternating between two or more languages in discourse

• Errors made by non-native speakers

Which of the following best illustrates ellipsis in a sentence?

• She runs, and he does too.

• She runs, he runs.

• She runs and sings.

• She, the champion, runs.

Which sentence shows grammatical metaphor?

• She quickly ran.

• His silence was a protest.

• I like reading books.

• That book is old.

In Hallidayan theory, the ideational function of language refers to:

• Organizing information

• Enacting social relationships

• Expressing experiences

• Creating cohesion

What does a phatic function of language aim to do?

• Transmit information

• Maintain social contact

• Command or instruct

• Create poetic effect

"Wh-movement" occurs in:

• Declaratives

• Imperatives

• Interrogatives

• Exclamatives

The difference between langue and parole was theorized by:

• Chomsky

• Halliday

• Saussure

• Hymes

Which type of error is illustrated by “comed” instead of “came”?

• Phonological

• Morphological overgeneralization

• Semantic deviation

• Lexical misselection