WorksheetsMorphology + Lexicology
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following statement(s) about morphemes is FALSE?
All morphemes can stand alone as words.
Some morphemes change a word’s meaning or function.
A single word can contain multiple morphemes.
Bound morphemes cannot function independently.
What is the primary difference between derivational and inflectional morphemes?
Inflectional morphemes change word class, derivational morphemes do not.
Derivational morphemes create new words, and inflectional morphemes only modify grammatical features.
Inflectional morphemes add prefixes, derivational morphemes add suffixes.
There is no difference.
Which of the following words contains both a derivational and an inflectional morpheme?
Happier
Unhappiness
Jumping
Rewritten
Which word formation process is demonstrated in the word ‘brunch’?
Blending
Compounding
Clipping
Backformation
What is the primary difference between compounding and blending?
Compounding involves combining whole words, blending merges parts of words
Blending is only used in informal language, compounding is not.
Compounds must be hyphenated, blends are not.
There is no real difference.
Identify the type of morphological change in the word 'editor' → 'edit'.
Conversion
Backformation
Blending
Reduplication
Which of the following is an example of suppletion?
Go- Went
Bake- Baked
Speak-Spoken
Build-Built
Which process is responsible for the creation of ‘email’ from ‘electronic mail’?
Acronymy
Clipping
Backformation
Compounding
What is the difference between a bound root and a bound affix?
Bound roots carry core meaning but cannot stand alone, bound affixes modify meaning
Bound affixes can function as independent words, but bound roots cannot.
Bound roots only appear in borrowed words, bound affixes do not.
There is no difference.
Which of the following words demonstrates zero derivation (conversion)?
Running
Children
Unhappy
Butter
What type of lexical relationship exists between ‘buy’ and ‘purchase’?
Antonymy
Polysemy
Synonymy
Hyponymy
Which of the following is an example of a homograph?
Light (not heavy) vs. Light (visible radiation)
Lead (to guide) vs. Lead (a metal)
Bank (of a river) vs. Bank (financial institution)
Fast (quick) vs. Fast (to abstain from food)
Polysemy refers to:
The study of word etymology
A process of word formation
Words that sound alike but have different meanings
Words with multiple, related meanings
Which word pair demonstrates gradable antonymy?
Dead/ Alive
Win/Lose
Hot/Cold
Parent/Child
Hypernyms and hyponyms show:
Oppositional meaning
A part-whole relationship
A type-of relationship
Phonological similarity
The difference between an initialism and an acronym is:
Acronyms are spoken as words, initialisms are spelled out letter by letter.
Initialisms contain only consonants, acronyms contain vowels.
Acronyms always include proper nouns, initialisms do not.
There is no difference.
Which of the following is an example of a retronym?
Laser
Smartphone
Landline
Autocorrect
What is lexical gap theory?
A principle explaining why slang emerges
The study of missing morphemes in word formation
The theory that certain words are untranslatable
The idea that some word forms are possible but do not exist
Which of these words is an example of a borrowing from another language?
Running
Ballet
Laptop
Unhappiness
What does the term "nonce word" refer to?
A technical term in linguistics
A word created for a single occasion
A commonly used slang term
A word that has fallen out of use
