Test LEXICOLOGY EXAM 2023

1. is the central or core meaning of a word, sometimes claimed to be the relationship between a word and the reality it refers to, and often contrasted with connotation. TYPE THE ANSWER 2. is a word formed by taking the initial letters of the words in a phrase or title and pronouncing them as a word. TYPE THE ANSWER 3. is one of the principal ways of forming words in modern English which consists in making a new word from some existing word by changing the category of a part of speech; the morphemic shape of the original word remains unchanged. TYPE THE ANSWER 4. is the smallest meaningful unit of a language, which has lexical or grammatical meaning TYPE THE ANSWER 5. is a speech variety appropriate to a particular speech situation (e.g., formal versus casual). TYPE THE ANSWER 5 Matching questions 1. Derivational morpheme 2. Regional dialect 3. Variants of English 4. Grammatical valency 5. Homophones A. is a speech variety spoken in a particular geographical area (e.g., Appalachian English). B. are regional varieties possessing a literary norm C. is the aptness of a word to appear in specific grammatical (or rather syntactic) structures D. is an affixal morpheme which is added to the stem to form a new word. E. are words of the same sound, but of different meaning 5 Multiple choice questions 1. is a variant of a morpheme 5 True/False questions 1. is the formation of a word due to an alteration in the phonemic composition of its root. → Grammatical valency True False 2. is the paradigm of an adjective, noun or pronoun, giving all its forms. → Declension True False 3. is a manner of pronunciation of a language. → Accent True False 4. is the form to which an affix is added → Base.. CONTINUES....