Morpho Quiz 1.10.24 Keys

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QUIZ on MORPHOLOGY (MOSY230236-04)

St.’s name: …..……………………… ID number: …….…… Date: 01.10.2023; Duration: 60 mins
I. How many morphemes do the following words consist of?

Ex: enrolment …… 3 ……
fountain …1… somnambulism 3
cutie …2… sleeplessness 3
studiously 3 scholarship 3
women’s studies 5 All Saints’ Day 5
student teaching 4 synchronic linguistics 6
II. The words in column 2 have been created from the corresponding words in column 1.
Indicate the word formation process responsible for the creation of each word in column 2.
Ex. text + book  textbook compounding
Column 1 Column 2 Word formation process
con’test (v)  ’contest (n) conversion /word class shift
(stress shift)
donation (n)  donate (v) back formation
camera recorder  camcorder blending
brief (adj)  abbreviate (v) derivation /affixation
dally (v)  dilly-dally (v) reduplication
Crime Scene Investigation  CSI acronymy
(named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich) sandwich (n) antonomasia
influenza  flu clipping
cloud+cuckoo+land  cloud cuckoo land compounding
(imitative of the cry of a small lizard) gecko (n) onomatopoeia /echoism
/sound imitation
III. a. Draw tree diagrams for the following words:

irreplaceability, indecipherable, anti-globalization, desensitization
b. Draw two tree diagrams for undarkenable to reveal its two meanings:
‘able to be less dark’ and ‘unable to be made dark.’
able to be less dark
UN DAR EN ABLE
K
unable to be made dark
UN DAR EN ABLE
K
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VI. Identify all the allomorphs of the root morphemes in the following words and give their
meanings. Write the allomorphs in phonemic transcription in slashes / … /.
Ex: strong, strength
/ strɒŋ / / streŋ- / : strong
1.maintain, maintenance: hold 2. recede, recess: go


3.intervene, intervention: come 4. reduce, reduction: bring, lead


V. Identify the –ing’s of the italicized words by these symbols:

V-al = verbal {-ING vb} N-al = nominal {-ING nm} Aj-al = adjectival {-ING aj}
1. The shining sun gilded the forest floor. V-al
2. A moving elephant is a picture of grace. V-al
3. Kelly’s book about her illness is deeply moving. Aj-al
4. From the bridge we watched the running water. V-al
5. Remember the old saying, practice makes perfect. N-al
6. I have an old photo of my parents dancing a waltz. V-al
7. Rinse the vegetables thoroughly under running water. Aj-al /V-al
8. There was dancing in the streets when we heard that the war was over. N-al
9. My son phoned me to wish me good luck, which was a touching gesture. Aj-al
10. Sedentary men, particularly those over 40, should not start
a running program without a physical exam. N-al
VI. Read the text below. Use each word given in brackets to form a word that fits in the
space. Pay attention to the correct word forms.
Linguists investigate how people acquire their (1. know) about know-LEDGE
language, how this knowledge (2. act) with other cognitive processes, INTER-act-S
how it varies across speakers and (3. geography) regions, and how to geograph-IC/-ICAL
model this knowledge (4. compute). They study how to represent the comput-ATION-AL-LY
var-iOUS
structure of the (5. vary) aspects of language (such as sounds or
theor-ETICAL-LY
meaning), how to account for different linguistic patterns (6. theory),
and how the different components of language interact with each other.
collect-ING
Many linguists do fieldwork, (7. collect) empirical evidence to help
them gain (8. sight) into a specific language or languages in general. IN-sight
They work with speakers of different languages to discover patterns
and/or to document the language, search databases (or corpora) of
(9. speak) and written language, and run SPOKEN
(10. care)-designed experiments with children and adults in schools, in care-FUL-LY
the field, and in university labs. Yes, linguistics is a science! 
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QUIZ on MORPHOLOGY (MOSY230236-04)

I. How many morphemes do the following words consist of?

III. a. Draw tree diagrams for the following words:

able to be less dark

unable to be made dark

V. Identify the –ing’s of the italicized words by these symbols:

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