Morsyn Mid Test

Morphology is the study of how words are structured and how they are put together from smaller parts.

• True

• False

Syntax is the part of grammar that concerns the structure of phrases and sentences

• True

• False

Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of a language and is always identified as a single syllable within a word.

• True

• False

Grammatical/functional morphemes are those free morphemes that have independent dictionary meaning of their own.

• True

• False

All free morphemes are able to stand alone. Some of these morphemes are part of function words that express grammatical function, also known as grammatical morpheme.

• True

• False

Lexical morphemes largely consist of morphemes that also function as content words

• True

• False

In many languages, when affixes are attached to a morpheme, they often cause “word-class shift” such as in “examiner -> examiners”

• True

• False

“Unhelpful” is a word that consists of one root and 2 affixes.

• True

• False

A word stem can be a root.

• True

• False

The stem of the word “cats” is “cat”, and the stem for the word “teachers” is “teach"

• True

• False