Morphology

What does morphology study in linguistics?

• The pronunciation of words

• The internal structure of words and their formation

• The historical development of languages

• The meaning of sentences

Which of the following best describes the role of an affix in morphology?

• An affix changes the entire meaning of a word

• An affix connects two words in a compound word

• An affix is a prefix that makes a word negative

• An affix is added to a root word to modify its meaning or function.

In linguistics, what is the term for a morpheme that can stand alone as a word and carries meaning by itself, like "book" or "run"?

• Suffixes

• Prefixes

• Free morpheme

• Bound morpheme

Which morpheme is an example of a bound morpheme?

• "Unhappy" in "Unhappiness"

• "Happiness" in "Unhappiness"

• "Un" in "Unhappy"

• "Happy" in "Unhappiness"

The following are major word formations, except...

• Compound

• Suppletion

• Reduplication

• Blending

The following are minor word formations, except...

• Affixation

• Blending

• Clipping

• Acronym

Willy Nilly is an example of word formation....

• Suppletion

• Affixation

• Reduplication

• Clipping

The example of derivational morpheme is....

• big - biggest

• old - older

• teach - teacher

• good - best

What is the smallest linguistic unit that has meaning or grammatical function?

• allomorph

• assimilation

• epenthesis

• morpheme

rider

• free morpheme

• bound morpheme

• inflectional morpheme

• derivational morpheme