By William B. McGregor
1) Morphemes are minimal linguistic signs in the sense that they can't be divided into further signs.
True False
2) A word can't be a morpheme.
3) Which of the following is the correct division of the English word repaired (meaning 'mended, fixed') into morphemes?
re-pair-ed re-pai-red repair-ed re-paired repaired repai-red
4) Which of the following is the correct division of the English word repainted into morphemes?
re-paint-ed re-pain-ted repaint-ed re-painted repainted repain-ted
5) Bound morphemes are called affixes.
6) Which of the following types of morpheme gives different forms of a root morpheme?
Clitic Inflectional Derivational Allomorphs
7) What sort of morpheme is -ing in the English word clippings?
Root Prefix Infix Suffix Free
8) Which of the following is a stem?
A root plus a clitic A root plus inflections A root plus derivational morphemes A root plus derivatinal and inflectional morphemes. A bound root
9) Depending on the language, an inflectional affix can be a clitic or a free grammatical word.
10) An example of a clitic in English is the plural number marker for nouns, -s ~ -z ~ -əz.
11) Inflectional affixes are generally more productive than derivational affixes.
12) The bound morphemes that are normally least prosodically integrated with the morpheme they are attached to are:
Clitics Derivational morphemes Inflectional morphemes
13) Phonologically similar allomorphs are called:
Morphs Suppletive allomorphs Phonological allomorphs Free allomorphs
14) Roots are always free.
15) English has no suppletive allomorphs for any lexical roots.
16) Are the allomorphs of a morpheme necessarily in complementary distribution?
Yes No
17) Attaching a derivational morpheme to a root always changes its part-of-speech.
18) Does English have agreement inflection on verbs?
19) Does English have inflectional case marking of nouns?
20) Which of the following is not a grammatical morpheme in English?
curtain a ~ an this to of
21) Which of the following is an unusual (exceptional, or marked) order for the morphemes of a word?
Inflectional prefix + Root + Derivational suffix Derivational prefix + Proclitic + Root Proclitic + Inflectional prefix + Root Proclitic + Inflectional prefix + Derivational prefix + Root Derivational prefix + Root + Enclitic Inflectional prefix + Root + Derivational suffix + Enclitic
22) A morpheme that can be attached to any word of a sentence is almost certainly a clitic.
23) If allomorphs are conditioned lexically, their distribution depends on which of the following:
The number of syllables of the lexical word to which they are attached. Their immediate phonological environment. The other grammatical morphemes in the word. The particular lexical item to which they are attached. None of the previous.
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