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WorksheetsLexical and semantic change
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 6mins
Descriptivism is...
Not being pedantic
Accepting change
Seeing worth in all varieties of language
Wanting clearer rules
Lexical change: compounding is..
taking parts of words to make new ones
putting whole words together to make a new one
taking a word from another country
Lexical change: clipping
when words are made longer
when words are made shorter
when words are blended together
Semantic change: narrowing
meaning becomes more general
meaning becomes more specific
meaning becomes more positive
Semantic change: ameiloration is...
words acquires a more negative meaning
words acquires a more positive meaning
words acquires a broader meaning
Semantic change: euphemism means...
an impolite way of referring to a topic
a polite way of referring to a topic
a metaphor
In the words "recollection, idealistic, and ex-prisoner", "re-, -ion, -ist, -ic, ex-, and -er" are _________.
a free root
a bound root
an inflectional affix
a derivational affix
The words “take” and “table” are called _____ because they can occur unattached.
free words
bound morphemes
free morphemes
inflectional morphemes
Morphemes that represent tense, number, gender and case are called ____________ morphemes.
inflectional
free
bound
derivational
Etymology is the study of...
word origins
insects
aliens
accents
Neologism: 'cuisine' is an example of...
a loan
a composite
a blend
a shift
Neologism: 'fridge' is an example of...
a loan
a composite
a shortening
a blend
Neologism: 'bromance' is an example of...
a composite
a shortening
a blend
a creation
A morpheme is...
a suffix
a prefix
smallest unit of meaning in a word
an affix
