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UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES NAME:

FACULTY OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE CLASS:
STUDENT ID:

ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY
MID-TERM TEST

A. Fill in each blank with ONE appropriate word. (5m)

1. Car and cars are different ___grammatical____ words of one and the same lexeme.
2. The different phonological realisations of a morpheme are called its __allomorphs_____.
3. An abbreviation created from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as one word is
called a(n) ____acronym_____.
4. The choice of the past tense allomorph /ʌ  æ/ (run  ran) is _____morphologically______
conditioned.
5. Inflectional suffixes never change the category of the _____base__________.

B. State whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true statements and F for
false statements in the space provided.(5m)
1. ___F (base, root la travel)____ The underlined part in travellers is both a root and a base.
2. ___T___ A lexical item can be a word, a phrase or even a whole sentence.
3. ___F____ An affix cannot be the head of a word.
4. ___T (adj 2, v 4, n 1)_The plural morpheme is the only inflectional suffix a noun can take.
5. ___T___ The verb hand is created from the noun hand through the process of conversion.
(zero derivation)

C. Are the following underlined forms lexical items? Write Y for Yes and N for No in the space
provided.(5m)
1. ___Y____ Children click and drag simple shapes to make a jack-o’-lantern.
(plural: jack-o’-lanterns --> phrasal word, not lexicalized phrase).
2. ___N___ Most road accidents are caused by carelessness on the part of motorists.
3. ___Y___ I can’t find the cooker in here.
4. ___Y___ He took after his father.
5. ___N____ She did that deliberately.
neu nghia predictable -- > not lexical item.

D. Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow.(5m)

Oceans and lakes have much in common, but they are also quite different. Both
are bodies of water, but oceans are very large bodies of salt water, while lakes
are much smaller bodies of fresh water. Lakes are usually surrounded by land,
while oceans are what surround continents.

1. How many word tokens are there? __48_____

2. How many word types are there? __30___
3. How many lexemes are there? _______

3 oceans, 1 and, 3 lakes, 1 have, 2 much, 1 in, 1 common, 2 but, 1 they, 6 are, 1 also, 1 quite, 1 different,
1 both, 3 bodies,
tinh moi cai 1 lan.

ocean va oceans la 2 word type khac nhau.

surround va surrounded la 2 word type khac nhau nma cung 1 lexeme.
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E. State whether the following structures are (A) headless, (B) right-headed or (C) left-headed. Write
A, B or C in the space provided.(5m)
1. ___C____ enrich
2. ___A____ dropout (compound noun, no head)
3. ___B___ shotgun (gun la 1 noun, shotgun la 1 loai sung)
4. ___C____ hard-to-please (hard la adj, ca cum la compound adj, hard carry most of the
meaning of the phrase --> left headed).
5. ___B___ cloudless (cloud la noun, less lam cloud thanh adj, v less la head)
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F. Identify the processes whereby the words below are created. (5m)
1. TOEFL ___acronymy____________
2. Original ___derivation/ affixation/ suffixing____________
3. HIV ___acronymy___________
4. Breakthrough ___compounding____________
5. Camcorder ___blending___________

G. Identify the allomorph(s) of theROOT morphemes based on the data below. (5m)
1. Deep, depth ____{deep}-/di:p/ va /dep-/
2. Half, halves _____{half} - /ha:f/ va /ha:v/
3. Grow, growth ___{grow} - /ɡrəʊ/____________________
4. Long, length _____{long}- /loŋ/ va /leŋ-/_______________________________
5. Decide, decision _____{decide} - /dɪˈsaɪd/ va /dɪˈsɪʒ-/_____________________________
{ } --> spelling form
/ / --> phonetic transcription

END OF TEST