Morphology MCQs 50 Score: 0 Attempted: 0/50 Subscribe 1. What does morphology study in linguistics? (A) Sentence structure (B) Word formation and structure (C) Sound patterns (D) Language history 2. Which is the smallest unit of meaning in a language? (A) Phoneme (B) Morpheme (C) Syllable (D) Grapheme 3. The word “unhappiness” contains how many morphemes? (A) One (B) Two (C) Three (D) Four 4. What type of morpheme is “un-” in “unhappy”? (A) Free morpheme (B) Bound morpheme (C) Root morpheme (D) Lexical morpheme 5. Which morpheme can stand alone with meaning? (A) Bound morpheme (B) Free morpheme (C) Affix (D) Inflection 6. Inflectional morphemes primarily indicate: (A) Word class changes (B) Tense, number, or case (C) New word formation (D) Sound alternation 7. Which is a derivational morpheme? (A) -s (plural) (B) -ed (past tense) (C) -ness (as in happiness) (D) -ing (progressive) 8. The root in “redoing” is: (A) do (B) re (C) ing (D) redo 9. Which language type is characterized by minimal use of morphology? (A) Isolating (B) Agglutinative (C) Fusional (D) Polysynthetic 10. Turkish is an example of which morphological type? (A) Isolating (B) Agglutinative (C) Fusional (D) Analytic 11. The plural “-s” in “cats” is an example of: (A) Inflection (B) Derivation (C) Compounding (D) Reduplication 12. Compounding creates: (A) New words by combining two or more roots (B) Only suffixes (C) Synonyms (D) Bound morphemes 13. In the word “blackboard,” “black” and “board” are: (A) Affixes (B) Inflections (C) Free morphemes (D) Bound morphemes 14. Which process forms “runner” from “run”? (A) Inflection (B) Derivation (C) Suppletion (D) Compounding 15. What is suppletion? (A) Using a completely different word for a grammatical form (B) Adding prefixes only (C) Reducing word endings (D) Blending two morphemes 16. The past tense of “go” → “went” is an example of: (A) Inflection (B) Suppletion (C) Reduplication (D) Derivation 17. Which is a bound root? (A) Cran- (as in cranberry) (B) Tree (C) Happy (D) Run 18. Reduplication in morphology refers to: (A) Repeating a part of a word to change meaning (B) Dropping vowels (C) Changing sentence structure (D) Adding affixes only 19. What is the morpheme type in “teacher” (-er)? (A) Inflectional suffix (B) Derivational suffix (C) Prefix (D) Root morpheme 20. Which language type uses affixes to express many grammatical relations in one word? (A) Polysynthetic (B) Isolating (C) Analytic (D) Creole 21. Morphemes that change the word class are: (A) Inflectional (B) Derivational (C) Functional (D) Redundant 22. The word “friendship” has how many morphemes? (A) One (B) Two (C) Three (D) Four 23. Zero derivation (conversion) is: (A) Changing word class without adding affixes (B) Removing a root (C) Doubling morphemes (D) Suppletion of tense 24. Which is an example of zero derivation? (A) Google → to google (B) Child → children (C) Sing → sang (D) Book → books 25. Which term refers to a morpheme that only attaches to the end of a word? (A) Prefix (B) Infix (C) Suffix (D) Root 26. Which is an infix in English (rarely used)? (A) -bloody- (as in abso-bloody-lutely) (B) re- (C) -ed (D) un- 27. What is a clitic? (A) A morpheme that behaves like a word but is attached to another word (B) A free-standing morpheme (C) A compound noun (D) A reduplicated form 28. The word “dogs” contains: (A) One morpheme (B) Two morphemes (dog + s) (C) Three morphemes (D) Four morphemes 29. Which term describes the main meaning-bearing unit of a word? (A) Prefix (B) Root (C) Affix (D) Clitic 30. The study of morpheme combinations is called: (A) Morphophonology (B) Morphosyntax (C) Morphology (D) Semantics 31. Cranberry morpheme refers to: (A) Bound morpheme with no independent meaning outside its word (B) Free morpheme in a compound (C) Inflectional affix (D) Synonym of root 32. Which of the following is an example of compounding? (A) Bedroom (B) Reread (C) Walked (D) Happiness 33. Morphological typology classifies languages based on: (A) Their writing systems (B) How they use morphemes to form words (C) Phonetic transcription (D) Syntax rules only 34. What does an analytic language rely on instead of morphology? (A) Word order and function words (B) Heavy inflection (C) Reduplication (D) Suffix stacking 35. The term “morph” refers to: (A) Physical form of a morpheme (B) Meaningless sound (C) Entire word (D) Sentence pattern 36. Allomorphs are: (A) Variants of a morpheme with the same meaning (B) Unrelated morphemes (C) Identical morphemes (D) Free morphemes 37. Which is an example of allomorphy in English plurals? (A) cats /s/, dogs /z/, buses /ɪz/ (B) tree, plant, flower (C) running, runner, run (D) happy, unhappy 38. Morphological parsing involves: (A) Analyzing words into morphemes (B) Changing phonemes (C) Translating sentences (D) Recording dialects 39. Which is a bound derivational prefix? (A) mis- (as in mislead) (B) play (C) friend (D) -ed 40. The morpheme “-able” in “readable” expresses: (A) Ability or possibility (B) Tense (C) Number (D) Plurality 41. What is a portmanteau morpheme? (A) A single morpheme expressing multiple grammatical meanings (B) A blend of two unrelated words (C) A clitic form (D) A root with no meaning 42. Which is a fusional language? (A) Spanish (B) Chinese (C) Vietnamese (D) English (in some aspects) 43. Back-formation is: (A) Creating a new word by removing a supposed affix (B) Reduplicating a root (C) Adding a new prefix (D) Suppletion 44. Example of back-formation: (A) Edit (from editor) (B) Teacher (from teach) (C) Happiness (from happy) (D) Walking (from walk) 45. Infixes are: (A) Morphemes inserted within a root (B) Always at the beginning of a word (C) Always at the end of a word (D) Never used in morphology 46. Which is an analytic language? (A) Mandarin Chinese (B) Turkish (C) Inuktitut (D) Latin 47. 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