超星 - Quiz for Chapter 3 Morphology(100 items)(11.9) - 查题吧

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The word “laze” is an example of ________ in word formation. (北京第二外国语学院2011)

A. acronym
B. blending
C. functional shift
D. back formation

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Pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and articles are _________.

A. open-class words
B. closed-class words
C. both A and B
D. neither A nor B

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“Kodak” is a/an __________.

A. acronym
B. blending
C. coinage
D. clipping

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_______ is a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.

A. Loanshift
B. Loan translation
C. Loanblend
D. Loanwords

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______ refers to those words which are made by combining the initial letters of a composite name. They cannot be pronounced into one word.

A. Initialism
B. Acronym
C. Invention
D. Blending

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In terms of ________, words can be divided into closed-class words and open-class words.

A. meaning
B. variability
C. quality
D. membership

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_______ refers to any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added. It can be equivalent to a root, or a root and a derivational affix.

Affix
B. Root
C. Stem
D. Suffix

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In the following words foot/feet, goose/geese, the affixes belong to _______.

A. suffix
B. infix
C. prefix
D. root

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__________ is a way in which new words may be formed from already existing words by subtracting an affix which is thought to be part of the old word.

A. affixation
B. back-formation
C. insertion
D. addition

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