Lexical Study

 Q. The study of words and their structure

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semantics

psycholinguistics

morphology

dialectology

  Question 12
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Q. 
Open class or content words are defined as
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the words that convey conceptual meaning

words that are open to interpretation

words that cannot be added to a language

words that do not carry conceptual meaning

  Question 13
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Q. 
Lexicon is
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a pairing between a form and a sound

arbitrary relationship between the meaning and the sound

our mental dictionary of all the words we know

universal capacity to learn new words

  Question 14
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Q. 
What is NOT an example of an open (content) class word?
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a noun

a pronoun

a verb
 an adverb
  Question 15
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Q. 
What is an example of a closed class (function) words?
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conjuctions

adjectives

adverbs

nouns
  Question 16
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Q. 
a minimal unit of meaning is called a
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tagmeme

lexeme

morpheme

phoneme
  Question 17
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Q. 
inflectional morpheme
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changes meanings and parts of speech

does not change meanings or parts of speech

makes adverbs from adjectives

smallest part of a word that precedes the root

  Question 18
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Q. 
What is NOT an example of an inflectional morpheme?
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-ing

-ed

-s

-ish
  Question 19
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What is an example of an inflectional morpheme?
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-er to form a comparative adjective

-ly to form an adverb from an adjective

-ize to form a verb from a noun

-ic to form an adjective

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Q. 
Free morpheme
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cannot stand alone

can stand alone

can be a prefix

can be a suffix
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Q. 
What can be an example of a bound morpheme?
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ist

eat

act

ask
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Q. 
A variant of a morpheme that does not change its identity
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allomorph

allophone

allotted

alloy
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Q. 
True or False:

A suffix will never appear at the end of a word.

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True

False
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Which of the four options are Prefixes?
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pro

ure

logy

ness
  Question 25
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Q. Words that are made up of more than one morpheme are called ...
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regular words
simplex words
complex words
compound words
  Question 26
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Q. 
Which two of the four options are derivations?
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preview

understandable

contexts

answered
  Question 27
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Q. 
Identify the number of bound morphemes in the text:

Mary has two little sisters who are always the loudest when crying.
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1

3
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  Question 28
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Q. 
Inflectional morphemes are often used to make words of different grammatical category from the
stem.
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true

false
  Question 29
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Q. 
Identify one of the various processes by which words can be built in any language.
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Infixes

lexical

functional

grammatical
  Question 30
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Q. 
The meaning of the word 'centenarian' is ...
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a person who tells people what to do

a person who is at least 100 years old

a person who likes cents

  Question 31
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Q. Do "revolution" and "revolutions" belong to the same lexeme or different lexemes?
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the same 
different
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Q. Do "revolve" and "dissolve" belong to the same lexeme or different lexemes?
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the same
different
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Q. Do "wash" and "rewash" belong to the same lexeme or different lexemes?
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the same
different
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 Q. A meaning of the prefix "under" is...
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too much
too far
too lean
too little
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Q. In the word "overact," the prefix "over" means...
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above
too much
among
large
  Question 36
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Q. 
Which list has all words with inflectional morphology?
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elements, linked, ordering, Persians, killed

elements, linked, ordering, unkind, killed

elements, linked, ordering, have, killed

elements, linked, ordering, tend, killed

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Q. 
Which list has all words with derivational morphology?
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unkind, Indo-European, morphology, Persians, within

unkind, Indo-European, morphology, thought, within

unkind, Indo-European, morphology, these, within

unkind, Indo-European, morphology, feature, within

  Question 38
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Q. 
In the English language inflectional morphemes can be...
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Prefixes, Suffixes and Infixes

Prefixes, Suffixes

Suffixes only

Infixes only
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Q. 
 In the English language derivational morphemes can be...
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Prefixes, Suffixes and Infixes

Prefixes, Suffixes

Suffixes only

Infixes only
  Question 40
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Q. Syntax is the study of_______________.
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Word formation
How language is used to communicate within its situational context
Linguistic meaning
Phrases, clauses, and sentences
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Q. _________________ was one of the most influential linguists in the field of syntax.
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Paul Broca
Carl Wernicke
Noam Chomsky
William Shakespeare
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Which photo is an example of a tree diagram used to study syntax?
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1

4
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Q. In the sentence “The fat man ate food,” which part is the noun phrase?
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Man
Ate
The fat man
Ate food
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Q. In the sentence, “The fat man ate,” which part is the verb?
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Man
Ate
The fat man
Ate food
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Q. Which of the following does not fall in the category of “determiner”?
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This
Their
Those
Tall
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Q. 
NP + VP = ?
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Clause or sentence

PP

NPV

(D) (AP) N
  Question 47
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Q. 
Open class or content words are defined as
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the words that convey conceptual meaning

words that are open to interpretation

words that cannot be added to a language

words that do not carry conceptual meaning

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Q. 
What is NOT an example of a content word?
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a noun

a pronoun

a verb

an adverb
  Question 49
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Q. 
What is a the most important word or a head in the NP?
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preposition

verb
 novel word

noun
  Question 50
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Q. 
Fill in the blank with one of the oprions:

'If you go to the USA twenty kilos _____ the baggage allowance.'
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was

are

is

were