Week 2

Which is NOT a functional category of English?

• Prepositions

• Determiners

• Interjections

• Conjunctions

Which of the following categories does NOT function as a lexical category?

• Verb

• Adjective

• Determiner

• Noun

Syntactic distribution concerns what other words appear near a word.

• True

• False

Semantic criteria deal with the meaning and interpretation of structures.

• True

• False

What does the term "morphological distribution" refer to?

• The number of morphemes in a word.

• The meaning of individual morphemes.

• The historical changes in morphemes over time.

• The arrangement of morphemes within words.

Which of the following statements are true for inflectional morphemes?

• They provide grammatical information.

• They change the meaning of a word.

• Inflectional and derivational morphemes serve the same function.

• They are always prefixes.

A purely derivational morpheme changes the grammatical category of a word and creates a new word.

• True

• False

English morphology is rich.

• True

• False

Can Adj and Adv be considered parts of the same category

• True

• False

Which of the following statements is correct for open classes of words?

• Closed classes are always longer than open classes in the number of words.

• Open classes contain a fixed number of words.

• Open classes include nouns and verbs.

• Open classes are primarily used for grammatical functions.