MCQ Bank
The process of creating one lexeme from another is called ______.
- A) Inflection
- B) derivation
- C) borrowing
- D) splitting
Primary affixes in English are often of Latin-Romance origin, while secondary affixes are often of native ______ origin.
- A) French
- B) Spanish
- C) Germanic
- D) Latin
The phenomenon whereby a language becomes intolerant of useless elements and speakers reanalyze them as having a new role is called ______.
- A) linguistic exaptation
- B) language death
- C) language shift
- D) linguistic endangerment
The process of creating a new word by truncation of an existing one is known as ______.
- A) Blending
- B) Compounding
- C) Clipping
- D) Inflection
______ deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes.
- A) Phonotactics
- B) Phonetics
- C) Morphophonetics
- D) Semantics
Which of the following words is logically compositional?
- A) Behead
- B) Doghouse
- C) Scarecrow
- D) Befriend
Which of the following can be the subject of a sentence?
- A) Verb
- B) Noun
- C) Adverb
- D) Determiner
According to English morphology, the word ‘fish’ will take ______ morpheme when it becomes plural.
- A) -s
- B) -es
- C) -ies
- D) none
The smallest linguistic unit with a grammatical function is known as a/an ______.
- A) morpheme
- B) grapheme
- C) phoneme
- D) lexeme
The process of creating one lexeme from another is called ______.
- A) inflection
- B) derivation
- C) borrowing
- D) splitting
Which of the following linguists proposed that language is a system of signs?
- A) Ferdinand de Saussure
- B) Noam Chomsky
- C) David Crystal
- D) Peter Trudgill
The phenomenon whereby a language becomes intolerant of useless elements and speakers reanalyze them as having a new role is called ______.
- A) linguistic exaptation
- B) language death
- C) language shift
- D) linguistic endangerment
Which of the following is a function word?
- A) Bargain
- B) Was
- C) Sleep
- D) Girl
Which of the following can be the subject of a sentence?
- A) Verb
- B) Noun
- C) Adverb
- D) Determiner
Items such as ‘the’ and ‘for’ which are phonologically dependent on adjacent words are called ______.
- A) clitics
- B) proclitics
- C) enclitics
- D) None of the given options
The two basic approaches to morphological analysis are ‘analysis’ and ‘______’.
- A) synthesis
- B) application
- C) method
- D) reflection
What is the origin of the word ‘morphology’?
- A) Greek
- B) Spanish
- C) French
- D) Russian