George Yule Part 3

1. The process of inventing a totally new term to add a word to a language is known as …

	coinage
	neologism
	derivation
	calque

 

2. One of the most common sources of new words in English is the process known as …

	coinage
	borrowing
	blending
	backformation

 

3. The words known as Anglizismen in German belong to the category of …

	borrowing
	compounding
	calque
	analogy

 

4. Words such as fingerprint or bookcase belong to the word-formation process known as …

	borrowing
	compounding
	calque
	analogy

 

5. Words such as fax or flu belong to the word-formation process known as …

	blending
	clipping
	backformation
	conversion

 

6. Words such as boyish or unhappy belong to the word-formation process known as …

	blending
	compounding
	derivation
	conversion

 

7. The editor of an influential American dictionary who was criticised for citing words such as advisory or presidential was …

	Benjamin Franklinb
	William Jones
	Noam Chomsky
	Noah Webster

 

8. A morpheme is …

	the smallest unit of language with a meaning of its own
	the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit of language
	another word for a syllable
	an element of language that is attached to a word

 

9. The form tourists consists of … morpheme(s).

	one
	two
	three
	four

 

10. The form undressed consists of … morphemes.

	one bound, one free
	one free, two bound
	one bound, two free
	three bound

 

11. The word the is a … morpheme.

	free lexical
	free functional
	bound inflectional
	bound derivational

 

12. The last morpheme in helpless is a … morpheme.

	free lexical
	free functional
	bound inflectional
	bound derivational

 

13. English has about … inflectional morphemes.

	8
	28
	48
	88

 

14. The last morphemes in older and teacher are both … morphemes.

	bound
	inflectional
	derivational
	functional

 

15. There are … morphemes in The girl´s wildness shocked the teachers.

	7
	9
	11
	13

 

16. The second morpheme in oxen is …

	the stem of the word
	a zero-morpheme
	an allomorph of the plural morpheme
	a derivational morpheme

 

17. In linguistic description, the asterisk (*) is used to indicate …

	dangling modifiers
	double negation
	gross reference
	ungrammatical forms

 

18. The words large and daily belong to the word class of …

	adjectives
	adverbs
	prepositions
	conjunctions

 

19. The words very, suddenly or then belong to the word class of …

	pronouns
	adverbs
	prepositions
	conjunctions

 

20. The words but and although belong to the word class of …

	adjectives
	pronouns
	adverbs
	conjunctions

 

21. The words who and me belong to the word class of …

	conjunctions
	adverbs
	pronouns
	prepositions

 

22. The study of how words are combined to form sentences is called …

	recursion
	surface structure
	synchronic linguistics
	syntax

 

23. The particular type of grammar that was developed by Noam Chomsky is known as …

	Immediate Constituent Analysis
	the Prescriptive Approach
	the Grammar-Translation Method
	Generative Grammar

 

24. The phrase old men and women is …

	structurally ambiguous
	lexically ambiguous
	unambiguous
	ungrammatical