Preguntas gramaticas inventadas
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Título del Test: Preguntas gramaticas inventadas Descripción: creative use of my brain Fecha de Creación: 2025/04/04 Categoría: Letras Número Preguntas: 34 Valoración: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Why is the word "prohibit-ed-ism" a strange case? Because an inflectional affix comes before the derivational one. Because -ism cannot be attached to words ending in -ed.
It is not an strange case. What sentence is NOT true? ed, -ing are the most derivational of inflectional affixes -ly and –ness are the most inflectional of derivational affixes The other two are both incorrect. If we take a look at the following sentences and we say that the suffix -ing represents different (homophonous) suffixes, what kind of suffixes will they be?: a. The car that crashed was speeding b. My overdose was doing its work: a slight speeding up of her heart rate. c. Avoiding a speeding car is instinctual. All of them are inflectional inflectional (a), derivational adjective-forming affix (b), a derivational noun formiing suffix (c) inflectional (a), derivational noun-forming affix (b), a derivational adjective-forming suffix (c). Which characteristic of a prototypical derivational affix is NOT correct? It... Will create new lexemes Will change major grammatical category Will have an regular meaning . What is "prefer" an example of? Lexicalization Neologism Institunialization. What is "police inspector" an example of? Semantic lexicalization Syntantic lexicalization Morphological lexicalization. What is "mince meat" an example of? Semantic lexicalization Phonological lexicalization Morphological lexicalization. What does V + N compounds (one who Vs + O), like pickpocket involve? Internal syntactic lexicalization External syntactic lexicalization Morphological lexicalization. What are Arabic, chivalric, and choleric examples for? Both Phonological lexicalization Lexicalized stress Both. What does length have? An unproductive root and unproductive suffix A productive root and unproductive suffix An unproductive root and productive suffix. What does enjoyment contain? A highly productive suffix Morphological lexicalization Syntantic lexicalization. Monday and husbands are examples for: Morphological lexicalization Syntantic lexicalization Phonological lexicalization. How has been the word "headhunter" created? It has been created by a productive process It has been created by a creative process It may have been created by both but it depends on the meaning it conveys. . What is this definition used for: "It refers to the formation of one lexeme on the basis of a previous one"? Analogy Creativity Blending. What does an attested word mean? It is listed on dictionaries It is part of the potential words that we can create It is a word with a highly productive affix. If the word incentivize was added to dictionaries in 1988, how was the word in 1987? Type-familiar and item-familiar Type-familiar but NOT item-familiar Item-familiar But NOT Type-familiar. What factors make a suffix more productive? Its frequency, its clear-clut lexical meaning, the existence of restrictions to the base, its usefulness. Its frequency, its clear-clut lexical meaning, the lack of restrictions to the base, its usefulness. Its low frequency, its clear-clut lexical meaning, the lack of restrictions to the base, its usefulness. Which statment is false? With productive processes we expect large numbers of high frequency words and small numbers of low frequency words. Low frequency words (esp. hapax) correlate with neologisms and are indicators of productivity. The higher the number of hapaxes with an affix, the higher the number of neologisms, hence the higher the productivity. According to Unitary-Base hypothesis, word-formation rule (WFR) can only operate on a single type of base. Therefore, Each suffix must have just one word-formation rule Different generalizations have to be postulated The same generalization can account for the different cases. The suffix -en can be used with black → blacken, tough → toughen but not with ✗ dryen, ✗ dimm-en, ✗ fin-en (not possible), ✗longen, ✗ highen, ✗ lowen. What kind of restriction is this? Phonological Morphological Semantic. Non-latinate bases cannot : take -hood to form abstract nounds form adjective+noun compounds naturally take -ity and -ant . What type of restricition is present *in employmental? Phonological Morphological Lexical. Why is interestingless not possible? Because it ends in -ing Because it is an adjective A negative affix cannot be attached to that base. The derivative suffix -er can attach itself to: nouns, adjectives to form agentive nouns to adjectives to form comparative forms verbs to form agentive nouns. What kind of restriction is found in rockly? A morphological restriction because -ly cannot be attached to nouns. A semantic restriction because -ly can just be added to nouns if the base refers to a human entities A phonological restriction because -ly cannot be attached to words ending in a /k/ sound. What restriction is found in *dier? Semantic Syntantic Phonological. What restritcion is found in *runee? Semantic Syntantic Phonological. What restriction is found in *We ungrow vegetables in our garden? Pragmatical Lexical Syntantic. Symbolic, productivity, grammarian and tutorial are examples of: The adding of an unstressed suffixed with a change in the stress pattern The adding of an stressed suffixed with a change in the stress pattern The adding of an unstressed suffixed with no change in the stress pattern. What happens in the first syllable of author->authority? A vowel reduction A vowel streghthening Great Vowel Shift. What happens in the second syllable of cremate>crematorium? A vowel streghthening A vowel reduction Great Vowel Shift. What happens in the o of atom->atomic? A vowel reduction A vowel streghthening Great Vowel Shift. What has happened in these words? Critic->critize, Romantic->Romanticism, Opaque->Opacify Velar softening Palatization Consonant streghtening. What is present in lubricant and demonstrate? Truncation Consonantal shift Clipping. |
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