WorksheetsMorphology
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 21mins
What is productivity?
It is the set of words or expressions that are closely related, whatever it may be.
It is a structured communication system for which there is a context of use and certain formal combinatorial principles
It is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process, especially in word-formation.
Choose the word that corresponds to the following statement: They are always intentional formations that follow an unproductive pattern.
Creative neologisms
Productive processes
Morphological phenomena
None of them
Choose True or False
Phonological restrictions on the domain of a word-formation rule are
particularly common with derivational suffixes
True
False
Select the correct answer:
The set of bases to which a rule could apply in principle is called.
Grammaticalization
Domain
Inflection
None of them
Choose True or False
There are quite a few restrictions on productivity that limit the minting of new words.
False
True
Choose True or False
Productivity and lexicon refer to the type of restrictions that explain why some words do not exist.
True
False
The ...... represents a ..... restriction on ...... (the desire for language should not have ..... words with the same meaning).
(a)
An analog change occurs:
when speakers form a new word on the model of another word..
when refers to the type of restrictions that explain why some words do not exist
Complete the following example:
Base = Potentially blocked word = Blocking word
........ = maliziosita = ........ = “malice”
(a)
Complete the following example
Base = Potentially blocked word = Blocking word
Armonioso = ................... = armonia = .................
