Exercis to Chapter Three
I. Term Explanation.
1. morpheme (重大2003; 北外2004) 2. inflectional morphemes (上外2000; 南开2004)
3. bound morpheme (同济大学1999; 上外2000)
4. backformation (武汉大学2003; 北外、中山、南开2004)
5. folk etymology (中山、南开2003) 6. lexeme (中山2002)
7. morphology (吉林大学2000, 浙大、人大2002) 8. stem (南开大学2004)
9. blending (武大2002; 上海交大2003; 南开2004) 10. root, lexical word (重大2003)
11.clod-class words/open-class words (浙大2002) 12. inflection (同济2000)
II. Multiple Choice.
1. Compound words consist of _____ morphemes. (北二外2003)
A. bound B. free C. both bound and free
2. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and many adverbs are _____. (北二外2001)
A. grammatical words B lexical words C. neither grammatical nor lexical words
3. “ Radar” is a/an _____. (东南大学2001)
A. acronym B. blending C. coinage D. clipping
4. The words “take” and “table” are called _____ becau they can occur unattached. (武汉理工大学2005)
A. free words B. bound morphemes C. free morphemes D. inflectional morphemes
5. A _____ is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added. (同上)
A. stem B. root C. allomorph D. lexeme
6. _____ is made up from the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a heavily modified headword. (同上)
A. Blending B. Acronym C. Abbreviation D. Invention
7. _____ is a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaing is fully borrowed. (同上)
A. Loanshift B. Loan translation C. Loanblend D. Loanword
8. Which of the following words is formed by the process of blending_______? (对外经贸2006)
A. WTO B. Motel C. Bookshelf D. red-faced
丢丢铜9. Vocabulary change in language can include all except ______? (对外经贸大学2006)
A. addition of new words B. simplification of word forms
C. loss of words D. changes of word meaning
10. Which of the following words are formed by blending? (对外经贸大学2005)
A. girlfriend B. television C. smog D. bunch
11. Write the proper description from the list under B for the underlined part of each word in A (大连外院2002)
A B
1) deafen a. free morpheme f. derivational prefix
2) boyish b. bound root g. inflectional infix
3) conceive c. inflectional suffix h. derivational infix
4) impenetrable d. derivational suffix i. Stem
5) 属鸡的哪年出生blackened e. inflectional prefix k. bound morpheme
6) I’ve
12. Match each expression under A with the one statement under B that characterizes it. (大连外院2002)痛彻心扉的歌词>个别教育
A B
学生干部 1) a noisy crow a. compound noun
2) eat crow b. root morpheme plus derivational prefix
3) scarecrow c. phra consisting of an adjective plus noun
4) the crow d. root morpheme plus inflectional affix
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5) crowlike e. root morpheme plus derivational suffix
6) crows f. grammatical morpheme followed by lexical morpheme
g. idiom
III. Blank Filling.
1. Morphology is a branch of grammar which studies the __________ __________ of words and the __________ by which words are fromed.
2. Morphology can be subdivided into two branches: __________ morphology and __________morphology.
3. The phonological and orthographical realizations of a morpheme are termed __________.
4. [-t], [-d] and [-id] are __________ of the morpheme {-ed}.
5. ____ affixes, ____ affixes, and ____ roots are all bound morphemes.
6. A morpheme can convey two kinds of meaning: __________ meaning and __________ meaning.
7. The allomorphs [-s] and [-iz] of the morpheme {plural} indicate the applications of the __________ rule and __________ rule.
8. Polymorphemic words other than compounds have two parts: the roots and the __________. (武汉大学2000)
9. 老套子On, before and together are __________ words ---- they are words which do not take inflectional endings. (学习思维武汉大学2000)
10. Give the regular allomorphs of plural in English: ________, ________, ________, ________, ________. (大连外院2001)
11. Give the regular allomorphs of past ten in English: ________, ________, ________. (大连外院2001)
