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Course: Lexicology

REVIEW TEST

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES


Course : LEXICOLOGY

Unit 1: Basic concepts


Section 1: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words/ phrases:
1. A …morpheme…… is the smallest meaningful unit in a language.
2. There are …5……morphemes in the word conversationalists.
Converse; - ation; - al; - ist; -s
3. There are …2….basic classes of morphemes: … free morphemes…….. and ………bound
morphemes………….
4. ……Complex words……are words that are composed by putting together smaller elements
to form larger words with more complex meanings.
5. In the word deactivated, the free root is ………act………..
6. A root which never occurs on its own, but joins with other bound morphemes is called …a
bound root……
7. The indivisible central meaningful part of a complex word is ……a root………
8. …Bound morphemes……are morphemes which can occur only if attached to some other
morpheme(s).
9. Words which cannot be decomposed into smaller meaning units are ……Simple words…..
10. The morpheme which cannot occur as an independent word, but must be attached to another
morpheme is a/an ……bound morpheme………
11. The morpheme audi- in the words audience, audible, and audition is a …bound root….
12. The complex word inventor is created by …concatenation….which links together a base and
an affix in a chain.
13. We can turn the noun water into the verb to water meaning provide water. This process is
referred as …conversion………., ……zero-suffixation…….., or …transposition……
14. The process of shortening words by deleting parts of the base word is called
…truncation/clipping….
15. The meaning of the derived word cannot be inferred on the basis of its constituent
morphemes, which is called ……semantic opacity…
16. Morphemes can occur only if attached to some other morpheme(s) …bound morphemes…
17. Morphemes occur on their own is …. Free morphemes….
18. Bound morphemes are always attached before the roots: ….. prefixes….
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19. Bound morphemes always follow the root: … suffixes…


20. Prefixes and suffixes are called … affixes…
21. The central meaningful element of the word:… root/base/stem…
22. Simple words which consist of only one morpheme are … mono-morphemic…
23. Colony in the word colonialization is …a free root …
24. Colonial is the ….derivative… of suffix -al.
25. Colonial is the …. base… of suffix -ize.
26. Colony is the … root… of suffix -al.
27. In the word heartier, heart is the … root.., and hearty is the … stem…
Section 2: True or False Questions:
28. Decolonialization can be segmented into the smallest parts de-, colony, al-, ize-, and ation-. F
29. The word neighbor is decomposable into two morphemes. F
30. All inflectional morphemes are suffixes. T
31. The morpheme un- in the word unkind has lexical meaning. T
32. The morpheme re- in the words replace and remember is a derivational morpheme. F
33. The word fathers is made up of three morphemes: fath + er + s (plural) F
34. The words truer, truthful, truly share the same root. root: True T
35. Inflectional affixes perform a grammatical function and create new words out of existing words
by their addition. F
36. English prefixes are always derivational. T
37. In the word industrialization, industrial is the root of the suffix –ize in the derivative
industrialize. F
38. In the word industrialization, industrialization is the derivative of the suffix –ation. T
39. In the word industrialization, industrialize is the base of the suffix –ation and the derivative
of the suffix –ize. T
40. In the word kicks, the verb kick combines with the third person singular present tense
morpheme –s to create a new lexeme. F
41. The noun kicker is derived from the verb kick by addition of the suffix –er to create a new
lexeme. T
42. Inflectional morphemes encode lexical meaning while derivational morphemes encode
grammatical categories. F
43. Derivational suffixes are not relevant for the syntax. T
44. Inflectional morphemes always occur outside derivational morphemes. T
45. Derivational suffixes never occur inside other derivational suffixes. F un- true -th -ful -ness
46. Inflectional morphemes always come last. T
47. Colonializinger is an English word. F
48. Inflectional suffixes change the category of the base word. F
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49. Derivational affixes are always category-changing. F


50. Derivational morphemes are fully productive while inflectional ones are often restricted in its
productivity. F
51. Inflectional morphemes are not restricted to suffixation. F
52. The free morpheme in the word unimportant is import. F

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