
for Chapter 3 Morphology
I. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C, or D in the brackets.
1. The morpheme “vision” in the common word “television” is a(n) __________.
A. bound morpheme B. bound form
C. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme
2. There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “-ed” in the word “learned” is known as a(n) __________.
A. derivational morpheme B. free morpheme
C. inflectional morpheme D. free form
3. The words that contain only one morpheme are called __________.
A. bound morphemes B. affixes
C. free morphemes D. roots
4. The stress of the compound noun “armchair” falls on __________.
A. the second syllable B. the first syllable
C. both the first and second syllables D. either the first or the second syllable
5. The word “hydroplant” is a two-morpheme cluster that contains __________.
A. two roots B. a root and a suffix
C. a root and a free morpheme D. a prefix and a root
6. The part of speech of the compound word “highway” is determined by its __________.
A. first element B. stress
C. second element D. meaning.
7. The word “boyish” contains two __________.
A. phonemes B. morphs
C. morphemes D. allomorphs
8. Inflectional __________ studies inflections.
A. derivation B. inflection
C. phonology D. morphology
9. __________ morphemes are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.
A. Free B. Bound
C. Root D. Affix
10. There are rules that govern which affix can be added to what type of __________ to form a new word.
A. root B. affix
C. stem D. word
lI. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you are required to give the correct version.
1. In English, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions make up the largest part of the vocabulary. They are open classes.
2. Such endings as “-ed” and “-ing” are called derivational morphemes because new grammatical forms are derived by adding them to existing words.
3. A compound is the combination of only two words.
4. The word “microphone” consists of two morphemes, of which “micro-” is a root, and “phone” is an affix.
5. The word “carelessness” is a three-morpheme word formed by a free morpheme “care” + affix “-less” + affix “-ness”.
6. The meaning of a compound is often idiomatic, not always being the sum total of the meanings of its components.
7. The compound word “bookstore” is the place where books are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings of its components.
8. Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds.
9. The part of speech of the compound is always determined by the part of speech of the second element, without exception.
10. A compound can be written as one word with or without a hyphen between its components, or as two separate words. It is simply a matter of convention.
III. Directions: Define the following terms.
1. morphology (P48)
2. morpheme (P49)
3. stem (P53)
4. derivational affixes (P52-53)
5. root (P51)
6. Inflectional affixes (P52)
IV. Answer the following questions.
1. Prefixes occur at the beginning of a word, and modify the meaning of a stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word. Do you think it is true? Support your answer with examples. (P53)
2. What are the main features of the English compounds? (P56-57)
Keys to After-class Exercises
I.
1-5 D C C B C 6-10 C C D B C
II.
错误的为1 2 3 4 7 8 9,其余正确。
III、IV略
