Факультет английского языка

Кафедра лексикологии английского языка

1.Lexicology is the part of linguistics which studies:

A) The vocabulary of a language.

B) The grammatical system of a language.

C) The phonemic shape of words.

D) The history of a language.

E) The relations between the language and social life.

2.Lexicology is closely connected with:

A) Phonetics.

B) Grammar.

C) Stylistics.

D) The history of the language.

E) All the above mentioned branches of linguistics.

3. Semasiology is the branch of Lexicology that deals with:

A) The study of word meaning.

B) The phonemic shape of words.

C) The grammatical function of words.

D) A positional mobility of words within a sentence.

E) Differentiation of vocabulary according to the sphere of communication.

4. Phraseology studies:

A) Free word-combinations and phraseological units.

B) Graphical abbreviations.

C) Synonyms and antonyms.

D) Lexical homonyms.

E) Phrasal verbs.

5. Etymology investigates:

A) Peculiarities of the English vocabulary.

B) Different types of compounds.

C) General problems of the theory of the word.

D) Different kinds of dictionaries.

E) The origin and history of a word and its true meaning.

6. Lexicography deals with:

A) The word-making process in English.

B) Classification of loan words.

C) Variants of the English language.

D) The theory and practice of compiling dictionaries.

E) The etymological background of the English word stock.

7. A morpheme is:

A) The smallest indivisible two-facet language unit.

B) The basic unit of a language.

C) A cliché.

D) A collocation.

E) An abbreviation.

8. Semantically morphemes are classified as:

A) Root and affixational morphemes.

B) Free morphemes.

C) Semi-free morphemes.

D) Bound morphemes.

E) Semi-bound morphemes.

9. Structurally morphemes fall into:

A) Root morphemes.

B) Stem morphemes.

C) Prefixational morphemes.

D) Suffixational morphemes.

E) Free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes.

10. The root of the word is:

A) The basic part of a word to which affixes are added.

B) The basic unit of a language.

C) A derivational affix.

D) A grammatical paradigm.

E) A derived stem.

11. A stem is:

A) A functional affix.

B) A derivational affix.

C) A prefix.

D) A suffix.

E) An unchanged part.

12. A prefix is:

A) A derivational morpheme preceding the root.

B) A derivational morpheme following the stem.

C) A common element of words within a word-family.

D) An affix placed within the word.

E) A combining form.

13. A suffix is:

A) A derivational morpheme preceding the root.

B) A derivational morpheme following the stem.

C) A common element of words within a word-family.

D) An affix placed within the word;.

E) A combining form.

14. An infix is:

A) A derivationl morpheme preceding the root.

B) A derivational morpheme following the stem.

C) A common element of words within a word-family.

D) An affix placed within the word.

E) A combining form.

15. Functional affixes:

A) Convey grammatical meaning.

B) Form different words.

C) Provide the structural completeness of a word-group.

D) Convey emotional components of meaning.

E) Form blendings.

16. Derivational affixes serve:

A) To form different words.

B) To convey grammatical meaning.

C) To build different forms of one and the same word.

D) To form only neologisms.

E) To connect parts of blendings.

17. A paradigm is:

A) The system of the grammatical forms of a word.

B) The system of the lexical meanings of a word.

C) The system of the morphological changes of a word.

D) The system of the semantic changes of a word.

E) The system of the lexico-grammatical changes of a word.

18. Word-formation is the process of creating:

A) Root morphemes.

B) Affixation morphemes.

C) Grammatical forms of a word.

D) New words.

E) Bound stem.

19. Affixation is the formation of words:

A) By adding derivational affixes to stems.

B) By joining two or more stems.

C) By combining parts of two words.

D By reducing a word to one of its parts.

E) By shortening a written word or phrase.

20. Coversion is a word-building process in which words are built:

A) By means of changing the paradigm.

B) By joining two or more stems together.

C) By adding word-building affixes to stems.

D) By combining parts of two words.

E) By shortening a written word or phrase.

21. Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built:

A) By joining two or more stems.

B) By adding derivational affixes to stems.

C) By means of changing the paradigm.

D) By combining parts of two words.

E) By clipping the beginning or the end of the word.

22. What is clipping?:

A) The result of reduction of a word to one of its parts.

B) The result of adding affixes to free stems.

C) The result of merging parts of words into one new word.

D) The result of subtracting a real or supposed suffix from existing words.

E) The result of shortening and compounding.

23. Which word-building ways are similar to compounding?:

A) Affixation.

B) Sound imitation.

C) Conversion.

D) Back formation.

E) Blending and reduplication.

24. What is blending?:

A) Telescoping, reduplication.

B) Sound and stress interchange.

C) Back-formation.

D) Sound imitation.

E) Affixation.

25. Which word -building type is similar to conversion?:

A) Adjectivization, adverbialization, substantivization.

B) Blending, telescoping, reduplication.

C) Sound and stress imitation.

D) Initial and final clipping.

E) Lexical and graphical abbreviations.

26. The basic aim of the derivational analysis of the word structure is:

A) To point out the number of morphemes.

B) To state the derivational pattern of the given word.

C) To define the degree of derivation of the primary stem.

D) To state the meaning of the word.

E) To find out the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning.

27. Affixation, word-composition and conversion are:

A) Principal and productive ways of forming new words.

B) Non-productive ways of word-formation.

C) Minor types of word-building.

D) Morphosyntactically conditioned combinability of words.

E) Word-building patterns.

28. Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are:

A) Productive ways of word-building.

B) Minor types of word making.

C) Principal ways of word-building.

D) Ways of making up phraselogical units.

E) Ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words.

29. Shortening is:

A) A common element of words.

B) A derived word.

C) The smallest meaningful unit.

D) A significant subtraction of a word.

E) Blending.

30. An allomorph is:

A) An affix placed within a word.

B) A positional variant of a morpheme.

C) An ultimate constituent of a word.

D) An association of a given meaning with a given sound.

E) A common element of words.

31. Hybrids are:

A) Idiomatic compounds.

B) Removal of all functional and derivational elements.

C) Words which are made after existing patterns.

D) Words made up of affixes from two or more different languages.

E) The smallest meaningful units.

32. Compound words are:

A) Words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms.

B) Class of lexical elements possessing the same lexico-grammatical meaning.

C) Nouns denoting some feelings and state.

D) Derivational morphemes standing before the root.

E) The smallest meaningful unit.

33. Derivational compounds are:

A) Words which provide the structural completeness of a word-group.

B) Derivational morphemes standing before the root.

C) Elements of set expressions which are structurally necessary.

D) Compound words that have affixes.

E) Words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages.

34. Which of the following words are derived compounds?:

A) Boyfriend, back-formation, wallflower.

B) Well-formed, dishwasher, three-cornered.

C) Overestimate, subdivided, pseudo-compounds.

D) Refrigerators, appendicitis, violation.

E) Forget-me-not, information, disagreement.

35. According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are:

A) Simple.

B) Shortened.

C) Compound.

D) Derived.

E) Blendings.

36. Which of these prefixes have the opposite meaning?:

A) Be-, co-, extra-.

B) Ultra-, sub-, pre-.

C) Anti-, counter-, non-.

D) Re-, co-, pre-.

E) De-, un-, over-.

37. Which of the following pairs of words has the verb derived from the noun?:

A) A monkey - to monkey.

B) A peel- to peel.

C) A help - to help.

D) A tramp - to tramp.

E) A jump - to jump.