2. Morphology

2.1. Morphemes, types of grammatical form and categorical word structure

2.1.1.Multiple-choice questions

95. Задание {{ 96 }} ТЗ № 96

The cases in which inflections acquire a lexical meaning, e.g. colour :: colours – colours=flag, are called … .

1. lexicalization

2. palatalization

3. transformation

4. neutralization

96. Задание {{ 97 }} ТЗ № 97

The endings -s (-es), used to form the plural of almost all nouns are of … type.

1. sound alternation

2. synthetic

3. analytical

4. suppletive

97. Задание {{ 98 }} ТЗ № 98

The words … can be referred to as having a morphemic structure that is common for English. (3 correct answers)

1. cartwheel

2. horsemanship

3. powerful

4. far-fetched

5. table

6. ungentlemanly

98. Задание {{ 99 }} ТЗ № 99

The method of expressing the grammatical category of number in nouns man-men// mouse – mice is called … .

1. Sound alternation

2. synthetic

3. analytical

4. suppletive formation

99. Задание {{ 100 }} ТЗ № 100

The method of building a form of a word from an altogether different stem as e.g. go-went // good-better is called … .

1. Sound alternation

2. analytical

3. suppletive formation

4. synthetic

100. Задание {{ 101 }} ТЗ № 101

The change in "book - books" is the case of … morpheme .

1. suprasegmental

2. additive

3. discontinuous

4. replacive

101. Задание {{ 102 }} ТЗ № 102

The morpheme "s" in books can be classified as … . (3 correct answers)

1. continuous morpheme

2. replacive morpheme

3. additive morpheme

4. bound morpheme

102. Задание {{ 103 }} ТЗ № 103

The change of "goose - geese" is the case of … .

1. Continuous morpheme

2. replacive morpheme

3. supra-segmental morpheme

4. covert morpheme

103. Задание {{ 104 }} ТЗ № 104

We apply … approach when we say that roots “express the concrete, "material“ part of the word meaning”.

1. positional and distributional

2. positional

3. distributional

4. semantic

104. Задание {{ 105 }} ТЗ № 105

We apply … approach when we say that affixes are divided into prefixes and suffixes depending on whether they occur before or after the root.

1. Distributional

2. semantic

3. positional

4. positional and semantic

105. Задание {{ 106 }} ТЗ № 106

Every morpheme serving to derive a grammatical form and having no lexical meaning of its own is called … .

1. an inflection

2. a prefix

3. a suffix

4. an affixation

2.1.2.Open questions

106. Задание {{ 107 }} ТЗ № 107

The smallest meaningful unit into which a word form can be divided is called a … .

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107. Задание {{ 108 }} ТЗ № 108

The morphemes that sound the same but are basically different are called … .

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108. Задание {{ 109 }} ТЗ № 109

Unlike lexical and lexico-grammatical morphemes … morphemes have no lexical meaning or function.

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109. Задание {{ 110 }} ТЗ № 110

The way of expressing grammatical categories which consists in changing a sound inside the root is called … .

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110. Задание {{ 111 }} ТЗ № 111

The unusual and expressive use of the article in the sentence ‘It was the Mrs. Smith I talked to yesterday’ is an example of oppositional reduction called … .

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111. Задание {{ 112 }} ТЗ № 112

The unusual use of the article in the sentence ‘Did you finish your home task yet’ is an example of oppositional reduction called … .

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112. Задание {{ 113 }} ТЗ № 113

The term for the morpheme which absence may indicate a certain meaning is a … morpheme.

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113. Задание {{ 114 }} ТЗ № 114

Different morphs which represent the same morpheme and have the same meaning and function are called … .

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114. Задание {{ 115 }} ТЗ № 115

The morphemes that express only one grammatical meaning are called … .

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115. Задание {{ 116 }} ТЗ № 116

The languages which have much less number of morphemes to derive forms of words are described as … .

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116. Задание {{ 117 }} ТЗ № 117

The grammatical forms used to build word forms such as: has invited//is invited //is inviting//does not invite are called … .

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117. Задание {{ 118 }} ТЗ № 118

Grammatical forms of words derived from an altogether different stems are called … .

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118. Задание {{ 119 }} ТЗ № 119

The type of oppositional reduction which represents the stylistically indifferent use of the weak member instead of the strong one due to its more general semantics such as singular in “Siberian wild cat is dangerous when hunting” is called … .

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