Each question in this quiz is timed.
Which of the following is the smallest meaningful unit of language?
Morpheme
Phoneme
Word
Allomorphs are different phonetic or morphological variants of a morpheme
Which type of morpheme can stand alone as an independent word?
Inflectional morpheme
Free morpheme
Bound morpheme
In agglutinative languages, affixes.....
Combine multiple grammatical meanings in a single affix
Are phonetically and morphologically indistinct from one another
Are added to a root or stem in a predictable manner
Which of the following is an example of an agglutinative language?
Mandarin Chinese
Turkish
English
Fusional languages are characterized by affixes that carry multiple grammatical meanings simultaneously
Latin is an example of a fusional language. Which of the following is a fusional inflectional ending in Latin?
"-ō"
"-s"
"-ing"
Which of the following is a polysynthetic language?
French
Japanese
Inuktitut
Polysynthetic languages are characterized by:
The incorporation of multiple morphemes into a single word
Affixes that carry multiple grammatical meanings simultaneously
A high degree of fusion between roots and affixes
Which type of morphological structure is characterized by clear boundaries between the root/stem and the affixes?
Agglutinative
Fusional
Analytic
