Morphology MCQs

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1. What does morphology study in linguistics?





2. Which is the smallest unit of meaning in a language?





3. The word “unhappiness” contains how many morphemes?





4. What type of morpheme is “un-” in “unhappy”?





5. Which morpheme can stand alone with meaning?





6. Inflectional morphemes primarily indicate:





7. Which is a derivational morpheme?





8. The root in “redoing” is:





9. Which language type is characterized by minimal use of morphology?





10. Turkish is an example of which morphological type?





11. The plural “-s” in “cats” is an example of:





12. Compounding creates:





13. In the word “blackboard,” “black” and “board” are:





14. Which process forms “runner” from “run”?





15. What is suppletion?





16. The past tense of “go” → “went” is an example of:





17. Which is a bound root?





18. Reduplication in morphology refers to:





19. What is the morpheme type in “teacher” (-er)?





20. Which language type uses affixes to express many grammatical relations in one word?





21. Morphemes that change the word class are:





22. The word “friendship” has how many morphemes?





23. Zero derivation (conversion) is:





24. Which is an example of zero derivation?





25. Which term refers to a morpheme that only attaches to the end of a word?





26. Which is an infix in English (rarely used)?





27. What is a clitic?





28. The word “dogs” contains:





29. Which term describes the main meaning-bearing unit of a word?





30. The study of morpheme combinations is called:





31. Cranberry morpheme refers to:





32. Which of the following is an example of compounding?





33. Morphological typology classifies languages based on:





34. What does an analytic language rely on instead of morphology?





35. The term “morph” refers to:





36. Allomorphs are:





37. Which is an example of allomorphy in English plurals?





38. Morphological parsing involves:





39. Which is a bound derivational prefix?





40. The morpheme “-able” in “readable” expresses:





41. What is a portmanteau morpheme?





42. Which is a fusional language?





43. Back-formation is:





44. Example of back-formation:





45. Infixes are:





46. Which is an analytic language?





47. What is the function of inflectional morphemes?





48. In “faster,” the morpheme “-er” indicates:





49. The process of blending in morphology is:





50. Example of blending:





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