‘Article’ means:
(a) A grammatical word or affix used to specify a noun as definite or indefinite..
(b) It may vary for gender and case in languages with gender distinctions and a formal case system such as German.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Bound’ means:
(a) In a general sense any form which cannot occur on its own. Both lexical and grammatical morphemes may be bound, but the number of the former is very limited, e.g.
(b) The first part of raspberry in English which does not occur independently.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Allomorph’ means:
(a) A non-distinctive variant of a morpheme, e.g.
(b). Which vary according to the final consonant of the base to which they are suffixed but share the same grammatical function of nominal derivation.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Case’ means:
(a) An inflection which indicates the relationship of a noun to other elements in a sentence, e.g.
(b) The dative in German which broadly indicates the beneficiary of an action: Sie hat ihm versprochen,nach Hause zu kommen.
(c) There are, however, instances requirements in which are many case not semantically motivated, e.g.
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
Morphology is:
(a) The study of human sounds.
(b) The study of the words as they express grammatical categories.
(c) The study of the sound system of a language or languages.
(d) The study of the structure of language without any concern for practical applications which. might arise from one’s work.
Question’s Answer: The study of the words as they express grammatical categories.
‘Degree’ means:
(a) A relational specification which is found with adjectives and. adverbs.
(b) There are three degrees: 1) positive in small, 2) as comparative as in smaller and 3) superlative as in smallest.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
Morphology is:
(a) The level of linguistics which is concerned with the structure of words, both from the point of view of inflections and of word- formation.
(b) It is traditionally located between phonology (the level of sounds) and syntax (the level of sentences).
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C.
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Function word’ means:
(a) A word which purpose serves of indicating grammatical category relationship. the a or
(b) It contrasts explicitly with a content word which has lexical meaning.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Irregular’ means:
(a) The plurals formed with a stem vowel change in Modern English, man men, tooth: teeth.
(b) A form which can be regarded as an exception to a given pattern or rule, e.g.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A form which can be regarded as an exception to a given pattern or rule, e.g.
‘Morph’ is:
(a) Any item of language which cannot be broken down any further without a loss of meaning.
(b) A morph usually realises a morpheme, the unit of grammar on an abstract level, e.g. /a n/in undoable but also /1 m/ in impossible.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Noun’ is:
(a) One of the major parts of speech. which refers to objects in the non-linguistic world
(b) To notions which are regarded as forming entities parallel to real-world objects, e.g
(c) By showing the property of countability.
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
Morpheme’ is:
(a) The smallest unit in a grammar which can contrast with another and which carries meaning.
(b) A morpheme, can be an inflection, e.g. /ri:-/ in rewrite or a lexical word, house, tree, sick.
(c) A morpheme is an abstract unit and is realised by a morph; it is the approximate equivalent of a phoneme on the level of phonology
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
‘Personal pronoun’ means:
(a) A grammatical form which refers to the speaker, addressee or person talked about and which occupies position a immediately next to the verb.
(b) In discourse it used to avoid repetition of a name which has already been mentioned.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
What is meant by the term ‘Suppletion’?
(a) A form in a paradigm (a set of morphologically related elements, such as the forms of a verb for noun) which etymologically comes from another source, e.g.
(b) The past tense form went in English is not formally related to the verb go.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Zero derivation’ means:
(a) The transfer of an element of one word class into another without any formal alteration.
(b) This is particularly common in English today, e.g. breakfast (noun) > to breakfast (verb). Another name for this phenomenon is conversion.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Plural’ means:
(a) A category in the grammar of all languages which refers to more than one object.
(b) All languages have a particular means for expressing this category, frequently by using a characteristic inflection.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Singular’ means:
(a) A grammatical category which a single occurrence of something.
(b) This is taken as the unmarked or normal instance in language, the plural, or even more so the dual, being marked forms, usually with special inflections characterising them.
(c) a & b
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: a & b
‘Stem’ means:
(a) A part of a word to which prefixes and/or suffixes can be added.
(b) It is normally unalterable, though some morphological processes, such as umlaut in German, may change it.
(c) It is usually used synonymously with root.
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
‘Verb’ means:
(a) One of the two major lexical categories – the other is that of nouns which is used to express a state or an action.
(b) The set of inflectional forms of a verb is termed a conjugation (parallel to declension with nouns).
(c) Verbs are usually distinguished for person and number along.with tense and mood and frequently for aspect as well.
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C