Chapter 4: The Internal Structure of Words and Processes of Word Formation in

English

Questions:

1. Which of the following terms describes a word that exhibits external

distribution or mobility, being moved as a single unit rather than in parts?

A. Syntactic B. Phonological C. Orthographic D. Grammatical

2. Which of the following terms describes a word as what occurs between spaces in
writing?

A. Syntactic B. Phonological C. Orthographic D. Grammatical

3. What is a word spoken in isolation that has one and only one primary stress?

A. Potential Pause B. Stress C. Both A and B D. None of the choices

4. What is the smallest meaningful unit in language that cannot be further

subdivided or analyzed into smaller meaningful units?

A. Morph B. Morpheme C. Lexical D. Word

5. What type of morpheme expresses a limited number of very common meanings

or relations within a sentence? These morphemes do not constitute open categories
and can be exhaustively listed. What is it?

A. Grammatical B. Inflectional C. Lexical D. Derivational

6. What type of morphemes are typically independent words (free roots) or parts of
words (derivational affixes and bound roots)? These morphemes can be
categorized into the major lexical categories or word classes: noun, verb, adjective,
or adverb. They constitute open categories, to which new members can be added.
 A. Grammatical B. Inflectional C. Lexical D. Derivational

7. A free morpheme may stand alone as a word, while a bound morpheme may not;
it must always be attached to another morpheme. Is the statement correct?

A. Yes B. No C. Maybe D. Not sure

8. Affixes may be of two types, derivational or inflectional, which have very

different characteristics. A derivational affix in English is either ______ or a
_____?

A. Prefix or infix B. Circumfix or prefix C. Prefix or suffix D. Suffix or

infix

9. What morphological realization rule describes the process in which two

morphemes are realized by morphs that remain distinct and are simply "glued"
together, as in the example {writer} + {pl} > writers?

A. Agglutinative rule B. Fusional rule C. Null realization rule D.

Zero rule

10. What morphological realization rule describes the process in which two
morphemes are realized by morphs which do not remain distinct but are fused
together, e.g., {tooth} + {pl} > teeth?

A. Agglutinative rule B. Fusional rule C. Null realization rule D.

Zero rule

11. What morphological realization rule describes the process in which a

morpheme is never realized as a morph in any word of the relevant class, e.g., {sg}
on nouns, which never has concrete realization in English.

A. Agglutinative rule B. Fusional rule C. Null realization rule D.

Zero rule
12. What morphological realization rule describes the process in which a
morpheme is realized as a zero morph in particular members of a word class, e.g.,
{SHEEP} + {pl} > sheep. Note that in most other members of the class noun, {pl}
has concrete realization as -s.

A. Agglutinative rule B. Fusional rule C. Null realization rule D.

Zero rule

13. What are the three types of shortening?

A. Acronyms B. Initialisms C. Clipped Forms D. All of the

above

14. It involves two processes of word formation, compounding and clipping. Two
free words are combined and blended, usually by clipping off the end of the first
word and the beginning of the second word, although sometimes one or the other
morpheme is left intact.

A. Compound B. Back Formation C. Blend D. Idiom

15. It has two functions which are to change the meaning of the root and to change
the part of speech of the root.

A. Affixes B. Suffixes C. Prefixes D. None of the above

16. It is a process similar to derivation, in which the initial syllable or the entire
word is doubled, exactly or with a slight phonological change.

A. Repetition B. Reduplication C. Reapplication D. Rearrange

17. It is where the free roots are joined in a single syntactic unit but remain distinct
words, a compound is considered a single word.

A. Compound B. Root C. Words D. Phrase

18. The combination of two or more free roots (plus associated affixes) and it
consist of more than one free root and may be semantically opaque.

A. Compound B. Word C. Phrase D. Root

19. Which of the following is an example of Compound Word?

A . hit the road B. sit tight C. safeguard D. under the weather

20. It is a sequence of words that functions as a single unit; it is syntactically fixed

and semantically conventionalized. One example of this type of word formation is
“spill the beans.”

A. Compound B. Back Formation C. Blend D. Idiom

Key Answer

1. A 11. C
2. C 12. D
3. B 13. D
4. B 14. C
5. A 15. B
6. C 16. B
7. A 17. D
8. C 18. A
9. A 19. C
10. B 20. D

Prepared by:
Group 4
Gamarcha, Denzel Marie
Gallo, Glaiza Louryn
Pillora, Kylen
Vargas, Dionellyn
Pichon, Keziah Myr
Mananap, Myka Louise
Edang, Rodelyn
Cañete, Antonette Nicole