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WorksheetsModule 3. Word-building
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 45mins
What are morphemes?
Select those which are types of affixes:
Postfix
Prefix
Root
Radical
Words consisting of a root and an affix are called:
(a)
Coining a new word by adding one or several affixes to some root morpheme is known as...
(a)
-some, -less & -y are examples of
Noun-forming affixes
Adjective-forming affixes
Verb-forming affixes
Adverb-forming affixes
Name 5 noun-forming affixes
What is the difference between a neologism and a nonce-word?
Select those which are examples of productive affixes:
-ish
-re
-able
-some
-hood
The constituent morphemes within derivatives always preserve their current meanings
true, no semantic shift occurs within them
false, they are open to subtle semantic shifts
What is the connotational difference between the adjectives “starry” and “starred”?
Making a new word from some existing word by changing its category of part of speech is:
Conversion
Derivation
Composition
Affixation
In English, Conversion is:
Productive
Non-productive
Give 3 examples of conversion:
Love - to love, work - to work, drink - to drink. All these occurred as a result of:
Conversion
Borrowing
Historical processes
Compounding
Which parts of speech are more affected by conversion than others? (select several)
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives & Adverbs
Prepositions
Pronouns
Making a new word by combining two or more stems is called
Composition
Derivation
Conversion
Shortening
What is peculiar about derivational compounds?
Composition is not a productive type of word-building in English
True
False
Handicrafts, craftsmanship, Anglo-Saxon and states-personage examples of:
Morphological compounds
Syntactic compounds
Neutral compounds
Give some examples of syntactic compounds:
What makes a compound “idiomatic”?
Select the criteria for distinguishing compounds from word-groups:
Graphic
Semantic
Phonetic
Morphological
Syntactic
What is the one thing that makes semi-affixes different from affixes? Give examples.
Shortenings are a productive type of world-building in English:
True
False
Give some examples of initial shortenings:
Which type of word-building is the following abstract illustrative of?
(a)
Doubling a stem is characteristic of:
Composition
Derivation
Reduplication
Conversion
How do you understand the process of back-formation?
