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Final Examination Descriptions

Exam Date: July 3, 2015

Duration: 90 minutes

Sections:

I. Define the following terms. Give examples to illustrate your answers. (15%) (每题3分, 共15分)

e.g.

1. morpheme

Please refer to Appendix A for more information about this section.

II. Identify the word-formation process involved in the creation of each of the underlined words

below. Write your answer on the line provided. (10%) (每题1分，共10分)

e.g.

1. bitter, sweet → bittersweet ________

(Based on Lectures 5, 6 and 7.)

III. Fill in the blanks with words formed from the given stems. (15%) (每题1分，共15分)

e.g.

1. The local people were actually __________; they often spoke three, four, five languages.

(lingual)

(Based on Lectures 5, 6 and 8.)

IV. Provide the meaning and an example word for each of the following roots below. (30%)(每题1.5分, 共30分)

Root Meaning Example Word

chron

Please refer to Appendix B for more information about this section.

V. For each sentence or sentence pair below, classify the meaning relation between the two

words marked in bold into one of the following types of relation: homonymy, synonymy,

antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, portion-mass, or member-collection. (10%) (每题1分，共10分）

e.g.

1. It was a remark made in private, not in public.

(Based on Lectures 12, 13 and 14.)

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VI. Each sentence below contains an incomplete collocation. Complete the collocation by filling

in the blank with a suitable word from the words provided in the box. Use the words in their

proper forms. Each word can only be used once. (20%) (每题1分，共20分）

e.g.

1. The Titanic sank on her __________ voyage.

(Based on Lectures 14 and 15)

Appendix A

Define the following terms. (You may want to use examples from the respective lectures or come up with your

own examples to support your answer.)

1. morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that has its own meaning, either a word or a part of a word. In

other words, it is a meaningful form that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts. (Lecture 4)

2. morphology

Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words. In particular, it is the study of morphemes and

their arrangements in forming words. (Lecture 4)

3. free morpheme

A free morpheme is a morpheme that can occur alone as an independent word. (Lecture 4)

4. bound morpheme

A bound morpheme is a morpheme that cannot occur as an independent word on its own but must be

combined with other morphemes to form words. (Lecture 4)

5. root

The root of a word is the morpheme that conveys the main meaning of the word. (Lecture 4)

6. affix

An affix is a bound morpheme added to the beginning (prefix) or end (suffix) of a stem. (Lecture 4)

7. compounding

Compounding is a word-formation process where two or more independent words are combined to form a

new word. (Lecture 6)

8. conversion

Conversion is a word-formation process by which a word of one part of speech is converted to another part of

speech without any change of form, either in pronunciation or spelling. (Lecture 7)

9. homonymy

Homonymy refers to the relation between two words that are spelled or pronounced the same but differ in

meaning. (Lecture 12)

10. hyponymy

Hyponymy refers to the hierarchical relation that holds between a word with a more general meaning and a

word with a more specific meaning. (Lecture 13)

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Appendix B

Root Meaning Examples

ann/enn year biannual, annual, anniversary, biennial, centennial,

perennial

anthrop mankind anthropology, philanthropy, philanthropist, misanthropy

cede/ceed/cess to go, to yield proceed, process, precede, precedent, unprecedented,

access, recede, recess, succeed, concede, exceed, excess,

intercede

cent hundred century, centennial, percent, percentage, centigrade

chron time chronic, chronicle, chronology, chronological, anachronism,

synchronize

cide/cise to cut, to kill suicide, homicide, incisive, precise, concise, pesticide

cord heart core, cordial, accord, concord, discord, courage, discourage

dict to say, to speak diction, dictionary, dictate, dictation, dictator, predict,

contradict, benediction, malediction, verdict

geo earth geology, geologist, geography, geographer, geometry

grad/gress to walk, step grade, gradual, degrade, upgrade, progress, digress,

aggressive, congress, transgress, transgression

gram/graph to write, writing telegram, cardiogram, autograph, biography, autobiography,

photograph, geography, calligraphy

ject to throw eject, project, projector, reject, inject, trajectory

log/loqu/loc to say, to speak dialogue, monologue, prologue, epilogue, apology, eulogy,

colloquial, eloquent, circumlocution

man/manu hand manual, manuscript, manicure, manufacture, manage,