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1. The process of inventing a totally new term to add a word to a language is known as ...
(a) coinage
(b) neologism
(c) derivation
(d) calque
2. One of the most common sources of new words in English is the process known as ...
(b) borrowing
(c) blending
(d) backfromation
3. The words known as Anglizismen in German belong to the category of ...
(a) borrowing
(b) compounding
(c) calque
(d) analogy
4. Words such as fingerprint or bookcase belong to the word-formation process known as ...
5. Words such as fax or flu belong to the word-formation process known as ...
(a) blending
(b) clipping
(c) backformation
(d) conversion
6. Words such as boyish or unhappy belong to the word-formation process known as ...
7. The editor of an influential American dictionary who was criticised for citing words such as advisory or presidential was ...
(a) Benjamin Franklin
(b) William Jones
(c) Noam Chomsky
(d) Noah Webster
8. A morpheme is ...
(a) the smallest unit of language with a meaning of its own
(b) the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit of language
(c) another word for a syllable
(d) an element of language that is attached to a word
9. The form tourists consists of ... morpheme(s).
(a) one
(b) two
(c) three
(d) four
10. The form undressed consists of ... morphemes.
(a) one bound, one free
(b) one free, two bound
(c) one bound, two free
(d) three bound
11. The word the is a ... morpheme.
(a) free lexical
(b) free functional
(c) bound inflectional
(d) bound derivational
12. The last morpheme in helpless is a ... morpheme.
(a) Free lexical
13. English has about ... inflectional morphemes.
(a) 8
(b) 28
(c) 48
(d) 88
14. The last morphemes in older and teacher are both ... morphemes.
(a) bound
inflectional
(c) derivational
(d) functional
15. There are ... morphemes in The girl´s wildness shocked the teachers.
(a) 7
(b) 9
(c) 11
(d) 13
16. Indicate the morphological process responsible for the creation of each word on the right:
a. act-deactivate______________________________________________________
b. perambulator-pram__________________________________________________
c. progress-to progress_________________________________________________
d. aerobics+ marathon= aerobathon________________________________________
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