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MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX

MID SEMESTER EXAM
OCTOBER 22, 2019

A. Circle the correct answer for questions 1-15. Point: 2 each

1. What is morphology?
a. The study of sounds that form words
b. The study of sentence formation
c. The study of word formation
2. The smallest meaningful unit that cannot be further divided into smaller parts. This is the
definition for….
a. Syllable
b. Morpheme
c. Vowel
3. How many morphemes are in the word ‘apples’?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
4. How many morphemes are in the word ‘disagreement’?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
5. How many morphemes are in the word ‘chair’?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
6. Below are examples of content words
a. Book, for, father
b. In, the, an
c. Anger, tiger, father
7. Below are examples of function words
a. Book, for, father
b. In, the, an
c. Anger, tiger, father
8. A morpheme that follows the root
a. A suffix
b. A circumfix
c. A prefix
9. A morpheme that precedes the root
a. A suffix
b. An infix
c. A prefix
10. A morpheme that occurs within the root
a. A suffix
b. An infix
c. A prefix
11. -ed in words such as ‘washed’, ‘stopped’, ‘baked’ is a good example of
a. A suffix
b. An infix
c. A prefix

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 12. re- in words such as ‘rewrite’, ‘refill’, ‘reborn’ is a good example of
a. A suffix
b. An infix
c. A prefix
13. Content words usually belong to open classes because new words are more possible to be
added to these classes. These open classes include…
a. Noun, verb, adjective
b. Article, conjunction, preposition
c. Verb, adverb, article
14. Closed classes on the other hand, rarely receive new members. These are classes such as…
a. Noun, verb, adjective
b. Article, conjunction, preposition
c. Verb, adverb, adjective
15. Which sentence describes derivational morphemes in English
a. Adding a morpheme but usually do not change the word class of a word
b. Adding a morpheme and might change the word class of a word
c. Adding a morpheme and gives information about things like plurality, tense, number

B. Match the words in A with the correct terminologies/examples in the box. Write your
answers in the spaces provided. Point: 1 each
mental lexicon -s in words like books, an infix
apples, students

free morpheme grammatical category bound morpheme

-ful in words like beautiful, doubtful, graceful

No. A
1 A morpheme that cannot stand
alone, must attach to a word

2 A morpheme that can stand

alone

3 An example of English
inflectional morpheme

4 An example of English
derivational morpheme

5 A dictionary in your brain that

has information about words of
the language(s) you speak

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C. Following the steps you have learned in class, identify the morphemes in the following data
from Finnish. Your results should show steps 5 and 8 (I have provided you with tables and
sample answers). Point: 2 each.
8.5 Finnish (spoken in Finland by over 5.7 million speakers)
a. Laulan ‘I sing’ g. Yuon ‘I drink’
b. Laulat ‘You sing’ h. Yuot ‘You drink’
c. Laulavi ‘He sings’ i. Yuovi ‘He drinks’
d. Laulamme ‘We sing’ j. Yuomme ‘We drink’
e. Laulatte ‘You (pl) sing’ k. Yuotte ‘You (pl) drink’
f. Laulavat ‘They sing’ l. Yuovat ‘They drink’

Step 5:
No. Morpheme Meaning Reference
1 -n ‘I’ 8.5 a, g
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Step 8:
No. Data Morphology Meaning Reference
1 Laulan {laula + -n} ‘I sing’ 8.5 a
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