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1）root （温州大学2017年考研试题）
2）initialism （四川大学 2012 年考研试题）
3）stem （四川大学 2012 年考研试题）
4）loanshift （中山大学 2013 年考研试题）
5）morpheme（四川大学2016年考研试题）
6）Inflectional Morpheme（四川大学2018年考研试题）
Directions: In each question there are four choices.Decide which one would be the best answer to the question or to complete the sentence best.
1）The morpheme “vision” in the word “television” is a（n）_____________. （北京第二外国语学院 2011 年考研试题）
A.bound morpheme
B.bound form
C.inflectional morpheme
D.free morpheme
2）The word “laze” is an example of _____________ in word formation. （北京第二外国语学院 2011 年考研试题）
A.acronym
B.blending
C.functional shift
D.back formation
3）Which of the following ways of word-formation does not change the grammatical class of the stems? （天津外国语大学 2011 年考研试题）
A.Compound.
B.Inflection.
C.Derivation.
D.Coinage.
4）Which of the following is an “inflectional suffix”? （（天津外国语大学 2011 年考研试题）
A.-ist
B.-ary
C.-ing
D.-ify
5）“He has already trunked two packs” is an example of _____________ error. （天津外国语大学 2011 年考研试题）
A.anticipation
B.exchange
C.morpheme-exchange
D.perception
6）_____________ is the smallest unit of language in regard to the relationship between sounding and meaning, a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning. （天津外国语大学 2012 年考研试题）
A.Allomorph
B.Word
C.Morpheme
D.Root
7）_____________ is the collective term for the type of morpheme that can be used only when added to another morpheme. （天津外国语大学 2012 年考研试题）
A.Affix
B.Suffix
C.Stem
D.Prefix
8）Which of the following is under the category of “Open Class”? （天津外国语大学 2012 年考研试题）
A.Nouns.
B.Conjunctions.
C.Determiners.
D.Prepositions.
9）The number of morphemes in the word “girls” is _____________. （天津外国语大学 2013 年考研试题）
A.one
B.two
C.three
D.four
10）Which of the following is not a bound root morpheme? （天津外国语大学 2013 年考研试题）
A.-put
B.-ceive
C.-mit
D.-tain
11）The word televise is created through the process of _____________. （天津外国语大学 2013 年考研试题）
A.blending
B.invention
C.back-formation
D.borrowing
12）_____________ is made up from the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a heavily modified headword. （北京第二外国语学院2016年考研试题）
A.Category
B.Synonymy
C.Antonymy
D.Acronym
13）The words that contain only one morpheme are called _____________. （北京第二外国语学院2015年考研试题）
A.Bound morphemes
B.Roots
C.Free morphemes
D.Affixes
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the most suitable words.
1）_____________ refers to an abnormal type of word-formation where a shorter word is derived by deleting an imaged affix from a longer form already in language. （天津外国语大学2016年考研试题）
2）_____________, a new word class, refers to those words that are used before the noun acting as head of a noun group, and that determine the kind of reference the nominal group has. （天津外国语大学2016年考研试题）
3）_____________ is the manifestation of grammatical relationship through the addition of inflectional affixes such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and cases to which they are attached. （北京第二外国语学院 2013 年考研试题）
4）The systematic study of morpheme is a branch of linguistics called _____________, which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed. （中山大学 2013 年考研试题）
Directions: Decide whether the following statements are true or false.Write T for true and F for false.
1）The smallest units that affect meaning are morphemes. （北京第二外国语学院 2011 年考研试题）
2）“Radar” is an example of acronym. （北京第二外国语学院 2012 年考研试题）
3）Stability, relative uninterruptibility and a minimum free form are three factors that help us to identify words. （大连外国语大学 2012 年考研试题）
4）Morphology studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed. （大连外国语大学 2012 年考研试题）
5）Root refers to the base form of a word that can be further analyzed without loss of identity. （北京第二外国语学院 2013 年考研试题）
6）“Daybreak” is a compound word, and it belongs to the class of verb compound. （北京第二外国语学院 2016 年考研试题）
1）What is your understanding of “back-formation”? Can you give some examples? （北京第二外国语学院 2016 年考研试题）
2）What is your definition of loanblend? Can you give some examples? （北京第二外国语学院 2014 年考研试题）
3）In the African language “Manika”, the affix, the meaning of which is similar to that of the suffix -ing in English has two phonetic forms, as shown in the data given below.You are required to
（1）give the two phonetic forms of the affix;
（2）give the underlying form of the affix;
（3）write a formal phonological rule to derive the underlying form of the affix to its phonetic forms, using the words [dumuni] “eating” and [sungoli] “sleeping” to illustrate the process of derivation. （南开大学 2011 年考研试题）
bugo hit bugoli hitting
dila repair dilali repairing
don come donni coming
dumu eat dumuni eating
gwen chase gwenni chasing
da lie down dali lying down
famu know famuni knowing
men hear menni hearing
sungo sleep sungoli sleeping
4）Analyze the morphemic structure of the English words “gentlemanliness” and “unlockable”, using a labeled tree diagram to illustrate the morphemic structure of the word under analysis. （南开大学 2011 年考研试题）
（1）gentlemanliness
（2）unlockable
5）Phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of sound and morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in grammar. （中山大学 2011 年考研试题）
6）What is an affix? Please exemplify any affixes that attach （relatively）productively to verbs and do not change the category. （北京航空航天大学 2012 年考研试题）
7）In what way or ways do you agree or disagree with Bloomfield in seeing word as the minimal free form? （武汉大学 2012 年考研试题）
8）Please state what a morpheme is and how many types of morphemes there are in English. （厦门大学 2012 年考研试题）