Random Linguistics Terminology 1
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- 1.What is nominalization?
- A.
Volunteering someone to do something.
- B.
The use of a verb or adjective as a noun.
- C.
Giving something a name.
- 2.Gerund is a ______________ formed from a verb, ending with -ing.
- 3.An example of a contraction is that "I did not" can become "___________".
- 4.A predicate is -
- A.
Another word for a predator
- B.
One of two main parts of a sentence
- C.
A predictable sentence
- 5.The subconscious grasp of the rule-based systems of a language is called -
- A.
Linguistic competance
- B.
Linguistic performance
- C.
Universalism
- 6.The way we use language is known as -
- A.
Linguistic competence
- B.
Linguistic performance
- C.
Universalism
- 7.A slip of the tongue made when speaking is known as -
- A.
Ungrammatical
- B.
Affricate
- C.
Performance error
- 8.Fill in what is missing in this sentence - English has nine specific parts of speech: ______________, verbs, _____________, prepositions, pronouns, _____________, adverbs, conjunctions and interjections.
- 9.A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that carries information about meaning or function. True of false?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.'ed' and 'ing' are examples of -
- A.
Prefixes
- B.
Suffixes
- C.
Infixes
- 11.A variant of a morpheme is called a/an -
- A.
Phoneme
- B.
Allomorph
- C.
Allophone
- 12.A free morpheme can occur by itself as an independant word. A bound morpheme can never stand on its own. True of false?
- A.
True
- B.
False
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