【正文】 ucturally fixed D. easily understood can work out the meaning of heliocentric and geocentric according to( ) A. morphological structure B. relevant details C. grammatical structure D. physical context causes the ambiguity of the sentence ”I like Mary better than Ja? ( ) A. Vocabulary B. Situation C. Structure D. None of the above Modern English refers to the language spoken( ) 5 A. from 1066 to 1500 B. from 1150 to 1500 C. from 1500 to 1700 D. from 1600 to 1800 added to the end of words to indicate grammatical relationships are known as ( ) A. bound roots B. free morphemes Part Two Directions: Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions is a branch of linguistics, inquiring into the origins and __ _ of words. lexicology aims at investigating and studying the _____ ___ structures of English words and word equivalents, their semantics, relations, __ development, formation and ____ _. 18. English lexicology embraces other academic disciplines, such as morphology, __ __,etymology, stylistics, ____ 19. There are generally two approaches to the study of words , namely synchronic and ___ _. 20. Language study involves the study of speech sounds, grammar and_____ _. 21. Affixation is generally defined as the formation of words by adding wordforming or derivational affixes to stem. This process is also known as____ , also called ____ __, is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems . Words formed in this way are called _____ __. 23. ______ _ is the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class. 24. ______ __ is the formation of new words by bining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word . Words formed in this way are called blends or__ _ words. 25 A mon way of making a word is to shorten a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains instead. This is called ___ _. 26. dictionary: Dictionary is a book which presents in alphabetical order the words of a language, with information as to their spelling, pronunciation, meaning usage, etc. : Degradation or pejoration of meaning is the opposite of semantic elevation. It is a process whereby words of good origin fall into ill reputation or nonaffective words e to be used in derogatory sense. 28. idioms nominal in nature: idiom has a noun as the key word. 2. Each functions as a noun/also knows as noun idioms. 29. Germanic: a term used to refer to a branch of the IndoEuropean language family, which consists of English, German, Dutch, etc. 30. allomorph: one of the variants that realize a morpheme. Analyze and ment on the following. 31. How do you distinguish inflectional affixes and derivational affixes? Derivational affixes change the meaning of the base(.,create vs. creative), while inflectional affixes do not(.,wait ). 32. Analyze the morphological structures of the following words and point out the types of the morphemes: unfriendly, interpersonal, foretelling. of the three words consists of three morphemes unfriendly(un+friend+ly), interpersonal(inter+person+al), foretelling(fore+tell+ing). the rest are bound as none of them can stand alone as words. 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. D 7. B 8. D 9. D 10. B 11. B 12. C 13. A 14. B15. C 16 D 1. Degradation can be illustrated by the following example[ ] A. lewd → ignorant B. silly → foolish C. last → pleasure D. knave → boy 2. Homophones are often employed to create puns for desired effects of: [ ] A. humour B. sarcasm C. ridicule D. all the above 3. The four major modes of semantic change are _____. [ ] A. extension, narrowing, elevation and degradation B. extension, generalization, elevation and degradation C. extension, narrowing, specialization and degradation D. extension, elevation, amelioration and degradation 6 4. The use of one name for that of another associated with it is rhetorically called_____.[] A. synecdoche B. metonymy C. subst