8. The primary function of suffixes is to change the meaning of the stem. 9. Functional words have both lexical meaning and grammatical meaning. 10.The meaning of a compound is usually the combination of stems.
11. Content words are numerous and more frequently used than functional words on average.
12. In different languages the same concept can be represented by different sounds. 13. Under no circumstances can sound and meaning be logically related.
14. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language.
15. Such words as kowtow, bazaar and ketchup are aliens.
16. Words of Anglo-Saxon origin are small in number, amounting to roughly 50,000 to 60,000.
17. A word can be defined in different ways from different points of view.
18. Inflectional morphemes indicate grammatical relationships.
19. A stem is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed.
20. What remains of a word after the removal of all affixes is a stem. III. Fill in the blanks. The first letter of each word is given.(20%) 1. One of the variants realizing a morpheme is called a .
2. Morphemes can be classified into f morphemes and b morphemes. 3. Bound morphemes include b roots and a . 4. Affixes can be grouped into d and i . 5. Affixation falls into two subclasses: p ___and s _____ . 6. Compounds can be written solid(silkworm), h (honey-bee) and o (tear gas). 7. C ___is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems. 6
8.Suffixes can be grouped into n suffixes, v suffixes, a suffixes, etc on a grammatical basis.
9. Almost all m ___verbs can be used as nouns, which are semantically related to the original verbs in various ways.
10. Conversion is a derivational process in which an item is adapted or converted to a new word class without the addition of an affix. Hence the name z d________. 11. A compound is a lexical unit consisting of more than one stem and functioning both g and s as a single word. IV. Analyze the word in terms of root, stem and base (5%)
internationalists
V. Give the clippings for the following words(5%)
helicopter → champion →
detective → dormitory→ sergeant →
VI. Choose a word from the list to fill in each of the blanks. There are more w ords than needed(10%) SALT laser radar TEFL AIDS WHO G-man BASIC docudrama brunch comsat sci-fi smog sonar NASA 1. _____ is still an incurable disease.
2. If one knows ________ language, one will find it easy to learn how to use computers. 3. _______has long been applied to surgery in medicine. 4. There are enemy aircraft on the ________ screen.
5. The person who works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation is called a _________. 6. He got up late and had coffee and a turkey sandwich for __________. 7. Tom doesn?t like the _________ he saw on TV last night.
8. A well-designed _________ curriculum is indispensable to the section of Service
English.
9. There?s going to be a meeting for the ________ agreement on nuclear weapons. 10. My brother is not a scientist; he is a famous ________ writer.
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Keys:
I. 1-5 BDBCB 6-10. AABDD 11-15. BCCAC 16-20.DBCAB 21-25. CCBAC 26-30. DBACA 31-35. AABBA 36-40.BADBA II. 1-5. TFTTF 6-10. TFFFF 11-15. FTTFF 16-20. TTTFF III.
1. allomorph 2. free, bound 3. bound, affixes 4. derivational, inflectional 5. prefixation, suffixation 6. hyphenated, open 7. compounding 8. nominal, verbal, adjective 9. morphemic 10. zero, derivation 11. grammatical, semantic IV.
Nation------root, stem, base National-----base International-----base Internationalist------stem. Base V. copter champ tec dorm sarge
VI. 1. AIDS 2. BASIC 3. Laser 4. radar 5. G-man 6. brunch 7. docudrama 8. TEFL 9. SALT 10. sci-fi
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